Article 6HQNM Tried to install Onedrive, messed up my entire desktop manager - help please

Tried to install Onedrive, messed up my entire desktop manager - help please

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I attempted to install Onedrive using the software package manager, thinking it would update to a newer version - onedrive - 2.4.13-1build1, and might even have a desktop GUI for it.

I was previously using a version from the terminal that I synched every now and then - onedrive v2.4.0-25-g7f267a5.

When I tried to synch using the terminal, it displayed the following:

$ onedrive --synchronize
Initializing the Synchronization Engine ...
Syncing changes from OneDrive ...

And then nothing happened. Several minutes.

Angry, I went back to Synaptic, and completely removed both libcmis-0.5-5v5 0.5.2-3build1 and onedrive 2.4.13-1build1. Why? Because both came up as installed when I searched for onedrive in Synaptic. Why? Because I'm stupid.

I rebooted, and, upon logging back in, my desktop looked like the attached.

Previously, my desktop resembled a typical MS windows screen with the status bar at the bottom, hitting the windows key brought up the applications menu, and everything at the top of the screen now was previously at the bottom.

I am using Xfce and xfwm4 - 4.18.0-1~bpo22.04.

Short of somehow reloading a system backup that I do not know if I have, could someone please offer some advice or help as to how I could get my desktop to back to my normal? Please, oh, please.

Thank you in advance.

System specs:
Linux matthew-ThinkPad-T430 6.5.0-14-generic #14~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Nov 20 18:15:30 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Code:~$ inxi -b
System:
Host: matthew-ThinkPad-T430 Kernel: 6.5.0-14-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 23427YU v: ThinkPad T430
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 23427YU v: 0B98401 PRO serial: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO v: G1ETB1WW (2.71 ) date: 08/08/2016
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.0 Wh (98.6%) condition: 21.3/56.2 Wh (37.9%)
CPU:
Info: dual core Intel Core i5-3320M [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 1198
min/max: 1200/3300
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony thinkpad t430s camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
v: 4.2 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 122.21 GiB (51.2%)
Info:
Processes: 232 Uptime: 5m Memory: 7.45 GiB used: 2.84 GiB (38.0%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13
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