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I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. When turning on my laptop today I discovered that some of the keys on my keyboard didn't work anymore, and I had to use the screen keyboard to input my password. I did a quick update && upgrade to see if that'd fix it. It did fix my keyboard issue.

I find myself however that my DE is broken and some of the things don't work. I can, for example, no longer write after pressing the home key to search for apps. And the styling of the windows manager is really off, as shown here: photo.

The only things I remember doing last night before shutting down my PC was updating some packages. Even though I don't remember that well, I'm pretty sure there was one related to gnome, so I'm thinking it might have something to do with that. (For context, I just executed sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y).

Any help on how I could fix this? I'm completely lost.

Edit: I already tried reinstalling gnome through apt-get --reinstall install, but it did nothing.

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  • Do some simple troubleshooting to rule out a hardware fault: Test those keys in a LiveUSB's "Try Ubuntu" environment. – user535733 Jun 01 '22 at 16:52
  • If you were using a terminal when updating your package you can see your bash history: nano ~/.bash_history. Copy paste it in your question. – GuillaumeF93 Jun 01 '22 at 17:00
  • @GuillaumeF93 I just checked the .bash_history file and indeed the only relevant thing there is the sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y command I executed yesterday. I don't feel there's much information to get from that. – Nabiu Jun 01 '22 at 17:15
  • @JanaL then you can see what it installed via the apt history file, it is located here: /var/log/apt/history.log. – GuillaumeF93 Jun 01 '22 at 17:21
  • @GuillaumeF93 Sadly there's no information there either. I think that while trying to apply some random solution I found while googling, I cleaned those logs, so now only logs from today appear :`) – Nabiu Jun 01 '22 at 17:30
  • Try to logout and click on the wheel (at the bottom right if i remember) and change to GNOME (on wayland or xorg) – GuillaumeF93 Jun 01 '22 at 17:45
  • @GuillaumeF93 yes, that did it! Thank you so much. I still don't understand what happened, but at least most things are back to normal. – Nabiu Jun 01 '22 at 19:48
  • Well done. I think that an update brings back other desktop environment, i suppose the classic gnome was selected as default and you did not notice. – GuillaumeF93 Jun 01 '22 at 20:32

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Logout. Click on the wheel (at the bottom right of the screen) in order to change the desktop environment. Select GNOME or GNOME on xorg.

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