my sidebar and topbar disappeared after installing nvidia driver

Asked Mar 05 '13 at 10:35

Active Mar 05 '13 at 10:55

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I have a nvidia geforce 520m graphic card in my laptop and I recently shifted to Ubuntu.
So I tried to install drivers for the graphic card. When I restarted my computer, my topbar and sidebar vanished.
I don't even see close and minimize options for the folders I open.

I can access the terminal and a web browser as their shortcuts are available on the desktop. Can someone please help me out of this situation.

I tried:

unity-reset
to delete .so file form the diveres
X11/ xorg reset

Nothing worked.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 520M] (rev a1)

edited Mar 05 '13 at 10:55

Web-E

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asked Mar 05 '13 at 10:35

Kiran Vemuri

remove the nvidia drivers – don.joey Mar 05 '13 at 10:37
how? i am new to ubuntu and i dont even know the location of the drivers – Kiran Vemuri Mar 05 '13 at 10:47
520m is optimus graphics card (mean dual GPU)? right? if not sure please, drop to console login (alt+ctrl+f1), login and include result of lspci | grep VGA in your question. – Web-E Mar 05 '13 at 10:48
@Web-E done! i pasted the results! – Kiran Vemuri Mar 05 '13 at 10:54
However you were lucky to get the desktop after installing, so no need to boot in recovery mode, you can execute commands from the console login. – Web-E Mar 05 '13 at 10:58
@Web-E can you give me a quick sol please? i've got to get my vm running.. got to submit a project tomorrow! – Kiran Vemuri Mar 05 '13 at 11:17

my sidebar and topbar disappeared after installing nvidia driver

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