Downloaded something, dock is now gone. ://

[Ameh]

My boyfriend and I were trying to spiff up my mac.
(I have a mac mini btw)

Anyway, we went onto firefox and downloaded a whole bunch of things so that I could have cool themes.

Then he downloaded something that would change the top bar to a different color.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z191/gatorz_gurl07/Picture1-9.png

Theres a picture if your confused by my crappy detailing.

But after he downloaded that, and something else to make my dock better.
Its dissapeared.
In its place is this thing called terminal.
I don't know what it is. Neither of us do. ):

But now when i try to get the widgets up, my dock dissapears.
When i exit out of terminal, my dock dissapears.

And when i say dissapears, i mean, GONE.

HELP PLEASE?

 

[Shaun.P]

Try the following:

Press: Apple + Alt + D

 

[Ameh]

that didn't do a thing.

 

[spinnerlys]

Can you see the Dock process in Activity Monitor?

Also, what OS do you have 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard)?

The bar on the top of the Desktop is called Menu Bar (File, Edit, View, .... - date, battery, Spotlight), the dock is the application starter/switcher on the bottom or left/right of the screen.

The arrows in your screen shot point to the Menu Bar, so what is wrong with it? It just has a different colour scheme.

Or you have set the Menu Bar to "not translucent".

And Terminal is a command line program, that looks like this:

 

[Ameh]

Nothing is wrong with the menu bar
we just wanted to see if we could change to color

but what was downloaded ruined our dock.

now there is none.

I have an OSx
and how can i get rid of terminal?

 

[alphaod]

Use term and type in: killall -9 Finder

See if that brings back your dock.

 

[spinnerlys]

And has a restart helped?

 

[Ameh]

nothing has worked yet.

I also forgot to mention that when the dock is gone, my desktop is frozen. no icons can be clicked and the wallpaper doesnt show up.

 

[ethical]

Try:

Restarting
or
Command Key (left of the spacebar) + spacebar.... then type in Terminal...... open Terminal..... type the following: "killall Dock" (without the " " ) and hit enter

if this fails, then can you post a screen shot of when:

1) you can see the dock
2) you cant see the dock

 

[jackerin]

I would suggest reinstalling OS X and trying to restrain your "spiffing" tendencies long enough to read and remember what it is you install.

 

[ViciousShadow21]

archive and re-install. and like jackerin said above be careful next time.

 

[spinnerlys]

You could also setup a new user account to see if the problem persists.

 

[Ameh]

You could also setup a new user account to see if the problem persists.

tried it, the same problem is also on that second new account.
which i dont know how to delete.. :/