Menus and file list fail to appear when starting geeqie

[Peter Belew]

I had been using geeqie earlier since I installed Xubuntu 12.04 on this system (fresh install on a new hard disk) and it worked fine displaying my various images. Earlier today I had minimized the program and when I tried to restore it no menus or file list or images appeared. I had maximized it and then tried to resize it to a mode where I could change its side by dragging the sides or corners, but that didn't. At one point there was an entry on the lower Xubuntu panel, but I couldn't access that since it was hidden under the usual icons there, including one for qeegie that I had added a few days ago.

I tried reinstalling geequie and one required other package (geeqie-common) a couple times, but still it's nonfunctional without any menus or file navigation list. I just noticed that geeqie-dbg is installed - I don't remember installing that, actually.

I've been keeping the packages updated at least daily with apt-get.

Additional version information (this is a Dell Mini 10 netbook):
$ ver
Show OS version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"
Linux mini 3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:17:36 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
cpu MHz : 1600.000
cpu MHz : 1600.000
MemTotal: 2052556 kB
MemFree: 1200884 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 2096444 kB
SwapFree: 2096444 kB

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: geeqie 1:1.0-10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 23 14:19:08 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: geeqie
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

I am able to bring up a configuration dialog by typing control-O. However, I couldn't find any of the settings which would restore the menus and file browser on the left panel of the screen.

I'm attaching a screenshot of the program as it is now on my netbook.

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

Yesterday I did a complete removal of geeqie and a removal of the ~/.cache/geeqie and ~/.config directories and reinstalled geeqie.

  rm -rf ~/.cache/geeqie
  rm -rf ~/.config/geeqie

Now it works. So now the issue is what caused the problem I had.