Fix for Pantheon-Mail Issue and Network Settings Glitch

I read about this error before, but I never faced it until today. After running the following commands to update my system:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I encountered two problems that I hope to fix:

  • Pantheon-Mail now stretches horizontally across the screen.
  • When I click on "Network Settings" from the drop-down menu of the network icon on the wing panel, it opens "System Settings" instead.

After a brief Google search, I found a solution for the first issue:

  1. Close or kill Pantheon-Mail.
  2. Then, open the terminal and run the following command:
  3. dconf reset -f /org/pantheon/mail/
  4. This command resets Pantheon-Mail settings to their default state.

For me, this fixed the issue. However, some users mentioned that this may not be a permanent solution, and I may need to run the command again if the issue reappears.