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Logging into my usual user account today after updates two days ago (I update regularly), and my desktop opens up, but with no launcher, no control bar, just the desktop shortcuts.

ALT+L doesn't work, can go into System Settings via display settings but nothing gives me a working desktop.

Ctrl+Alt+del brings up processes window, so I can kill my gnome process, then login with another user account, and everything is normal on the other user account.

I have no idea what's going on. Any suggestions?

Zanna
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  • Might be a window manager issue. Which window manager do you have? Did you change anything recently? – heemayl Feb 08 '15 at 20:27
  • I only use standard Ubuntu everything. I don't even know what other window managers you mean? – MakeItElegant Feb 08 '15 at 20:28
  • Seems like you have some bad configurations in this account. Is resetting unity to the defaults an option to you? If yes, this could help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/17610/how-do-i-reset-my-unity-configuration – verpfeilt Feb 08 '15 at 21:31
  • Just tried .Rebooted, . downloaded unity-tweak-tool and did reset. Made no difference. Also tried stop lightdm and start lightdm. No difference. Is there a way I can reset that user account to default values? I just looked up compiz manager, should I install that? – MakeItElegant Feb 08 '15 at 21:53

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What worked was to remove the following file for that user account

rm ~/.config/dconf/user

This put back the launcher and the menu bar in that account. I still got a system error report pop up, (the same had popped up once earlier but was unfathomable to me at the time). In the details was some complaint about libprocps3, so I reinstalled:

sudo apt-get install libprocps3-dev

as advised in this help page

Zanna
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