Guest Logged in working fine...But When i do logging with my user account..logged in gets successful but after logged in ..nothing appears on desktop except wallpaper of ubuntu. Facing this problem from so many days.
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possible duplicate of Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears – David Foerster Apr 07 '15 at 00:03
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Open your terminal or login into tty2 (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2) and go to home folder by using command cd ~ .
Delete files with the command rm as shown bellow. Exit tty2 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7, and re-login. This should solve desktop problem when you relogin, since those files will be recreated with new configuration.
rm -rf .compiz .config .gconf .gnome .gnome2 .kde .gvfs .local
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Nothing comes after logging except wallpaper of ubuntu – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 14 '15 at 07:56
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No its not opening...actually nothing works except Ctrl+Alt+F1..for tty1 BLANK Ubuntu wallpaper appears .key pressing shows nothing.... – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 14 '15 at 09:24
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Then you can use this terminal press Ctrl+Alt+F1 then run the above commands – PKumar Mar 18 '15 at 08:09
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I ran above commands ..cd ~ does nothing... My command prompt is like myname@ubuntu$: so I guess I was already in my home folder isn't? Then I ran rm -rf whole command what you suggested. Then I press Ctrl+Alt+F7 again I directly landed into blank wallpaper of Ubuntu...or there is another way of logging after running above commands – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 19 '15 at 01:30
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you have to delete hidden directories and files then relogin in GUI then configuration files will be recreated in your home folder they will be hidden – PKumar Mar 19 '15 at 17:43
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Shall I run rm -fr/home/myuser/.* to delete hidden files? Or Is there another way to accomplish this? – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 20 '15 at 01:22
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OK..but I try to use rm -fr/home/myuser to delete hidden file and its saying unrecognized option -fr/home/myuser – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 21 '15 at 17:05
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I am able to view everything after logging...thanks for your support – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 21 '15 at 17:46
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From the login screen you can select different windows managers. Try different windows managers till you get one that works.
Also, you can install windows managers at the command line. For example
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install gdm
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Nuke and pave is always an option. Reinstall Ubuntu using the "partition it manually" option and make sure you don't format the linux partition (don't format anything). There's always a little risk when doing this but you should be able to have a working dual boot again without trouble.
Make sure to mount your windows partion somewhere (/windows) so that grub knows you have a dual boot situation.
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I tried with gdm last time then Ubuntu splash screen appears with dots...No logging screen appears ...it sticks at splash screen – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 14 '15 at 07:55
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Well,I have Ubuntu with windows 7.Will reinstall it work? – Shalinderjeet singh randhawa Mar 19 '15 at 01:33
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@JaredRosenberg could you merge your two answers ? lets keep the answers section nice and clean here – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Apr 06 '15 at 21:14