I installed the latest Wheezy from May 5, 2015 yesterday.
I also installed tightvnc server in order to access the desktop from my Win7 PC.
To begin with I followed a tutorial for VNC, which ended up in running the VNC server as user root, which I did not notice at first.
But after a while I saw that the files I created wound up in /root rather than in /home/pi so I started to investigate it and discovered the mistake in the VNC installation.
So I modified the scripts and reset the VNC startup methods so it now uses user pi.
If I start a command window in the VNC shell it runs as user pi whereas it ran before as user root.
But it seems like there is still something amiss, because when I use the Menu button in the new VNC shell there are only two items present, Run and Shutdown. In the previous configuration I had a lot of programs to choose from including programming tools. They are all missing now...
How should I go about restoring these in my Raspbian Wheezy installation?
The Pi itself is headless, I have only SSH access via PuTTY and VNC for GUI work.
Any pointers, suggestions advice etc welcome!