Ubuntu only shows mouse cursor and wallpaper after opening laptop?

Question

After changing a config setting to make my (partitioned Macbook Pro) laptop do nothing when the lid is closed ('HandleLidSwitch=ignore'), but now, when I open my laptop again, nothing is shown except the wallpaper and my mouse cursor.

It seems I can still open apps by pressing the "command" key on my laptop and then searching for apps and pressing enter, and a new terminal window will appear, but no sidebar is showing, nor are the icons on my desktop.

Any fixes for this?

Do you know exactly what is the config setting you made? If you can access a terminal run journalctl -p err Copy here the parts you may found relevant. — Pablo Bianchi, Jul 20 '20 at 04:33
@PabloBianchi I edited the "/etc/systemd/logind.conf" file. I uncommented the HandleLidSwitch= option and changed "suspend" to "ignore" — jethr0, Jul 20 '20 at 04:35
What if you undo those changes? Take a look to this question — Pablo Bianchi, Jul 20 '20 at 05:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 06:48

FIXED!!!

Turns out the problem was that Ubuntu thought I had 2 displays connected, when in reality I had one. When I would open the laptop, it would display the interface and sidebar and all that on the "main monitor", which wasn't my laptop screen.

To fix this I simply restarted my computer and then removed the second display

Ubuntu only shows mouse cursor and wallpaper after opening laptop?

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