Panes not opening; can't open many tabs

My bottom and right panes are not opening when I click the panes buttons and when I go to the windows menu, most of the tabs are grayed out. Why is it like this? Already trashed prefs.

Got it. Had to bring up the standard layout. Still don't know why it was doing that, though.

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