Ttgjyuk

Match Roman Numerals

What can I do if neighbor is blocking my solar panels intentionally?

Why can't devices on different VLANs, but on the same subnet, communicate?

Is it ok to offer lower paid work as a trial period before negotiating for a full-time job?

"... to apply for a visa" or "... and applied for a visa"?

Do warforged have souls?

Sub-subscripts in strings cause different spacings than subscripts

Are spiders unable to hurt humans, especially very small spiders?

What to do when moving next to a bird sanctuary with a loosely-domesticated cat?

Why doesn't a hydraulic lever violate conservation of energy?

Using dividends to reduce short term capital gains?

Why can't wing-mounted spoilers be used to steepen approaches?

What's the point in a preamp?

Loose spokes after only a few rides

Would an alien lifeform be able to achieve space travel if lacking in vision?

Simulating Exploding Dice

What do I do when my TA workload is more than expected?

Deal with toxic manager when you can't quit

Did the UK government pay "millions and millions of dollars" to try to snag Julian Assange?

Is every episode of "Where are my Pants?" identical?

Could an empire control the whole planet with today's comunication methods?

"is" operation returns false with ndarray.data attribute, even though two array objects have same id

How do you keep chess fun when your opponent constantly beats you?

should truth entail possible truth

can't see desktop except for background when log in Ubuntu14.04

.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty margin-bottom:0;

1

I need some help, I installed Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04. I had some problems when it rebooted so I had to install unity using sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and continue tu update all packages using the virtual console. Ctr + Alt + F1.

But when I tried to login, after entering my user and password nothing loads, no dash, no launcher, etc. I tried everything but most I find is for older versions so I need help with this version or how to install a Gnome panel to replace unity and set it as defaul.

using ccsm show the unity plugin checked.

P.D.: I'm using an Acer Aspire 4520 with and Nvidia card.

unity 14.04 gnome compiz

share|improve this question

edited Aug 3 '14 at 14:11

Tim

20.2k1586142

asked Aug 3 '14 at 14:10

user311751user311751

612

bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 15 mins ago

This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed.

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  If you create a new account and log in to that, do you still get the problem?
  
  – bain
  Aug 3 '14 at 14:15
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I can't access anymore than login screen, even the guest account gives the same problem. I'm not very good using the console so I don't know what to do anymore.
  
  – user311751
  Aug 3 '14 at 14:51
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  It is probably a Nouveau bug. Can you try booting from the 14.04.1 ISO image and see if that works?
  
  – bain
  Aug 3 '14 at 14:56
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  You can run sudo apt-get install nvidia-current from the text console to switch from nouveau to nvidia. Just reboot after it's done installing for the changes to take effect.
  
  – mchid
  Aug 3 '14 at 18:00
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Well I tried that but didn't work and when switching forma grafic to virtual console the screen turns flashy and I cant ese anything. To resolve this I have to use an external monitor. By this moment I think that fresh installation is my solution.
  
  – user311751
  Aug 9 '14 at 1:51
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

1

I need some help, I installed Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04. I had some problems when it rebooted so I had to install unity using sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and continue tu update all packages using the virtual console. Ctr + Alt + F1.

But when I tried to login, after entering my user and password nothing loads, no dash, no launcher, etc. I tried everything but most I find is for older versions so I need help with this version or how to install a Gnome panel to replace unity and set it as defaul.

using ccsm show the unity plugin checked.

P.D.: I'm using an Acer Aspire 4520 with and Nvidia card.

unity 14.04 gnome compiz

share|improve this question

edited Aug 3 '14 at 14:11

Tim

20.2k1586142

asked Aug 3 '14 at 14:10

user311751user311751

612

bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 15 mins ago

This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed.

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  If you create a new account and log in to that, do you still get the problem?
  
  – bain
  Aug 3 '14 at 14:15
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I can't access anymore than login screen, even the guest account gives the same problem. I'm not very good using the console so I don't know what to do anymore.
  
  – user311751
  Aug 3 '14 at 14:51
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  It is probably a Nouveau bug. Can you try booting from the 14.04.1 ISO image and see if that works?
  
  – bain
  Aug 3 '14 at 14:56
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  You can run sudo apt-get install nvidia-current from the text console to switch from nouveau to nvidia. Just reboot after it's done installing for the changes to take effect.
  
  – mchid
  Aug 3 '14 at 18:00
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Well I tried that but didn't work and when switching forma grafic to virtual console the screen turns flashy and I cant ese anything. To resolve this I have to use an external monitor. By this moment I think that fresh installation is my solution.
  
  – user311751
  Aug 9 '14 at 1:51
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

I need some help, I installed Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04. I had some problems when it rebooted so I had to install unity using sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and continue tu update all packages using the virtual console. Ctr + Alt + F1.

But when I tried to login, after entering my user and password nothing loads, no dash, no launcher, etc. I tried everything but most I find is for older versions so I need help with this version or how to install a Gnome panel to replace unity and set it as defaul.

using ccsm show the unity plugin checked.

P.D.: I'm using an Acer Aspire 4520 with and Nvidia card.

unity 14.04 gnome compiz

share|improve this question

edited Aug 3 '14 at 14:11

Tim

20.2k1586142

asked Aug 3 '14 at 14:10

user311751user311751

612

share|improve this question

edited Aug 3 '14 at 14:11

Tim

20.2k1586142

asked Aug 3 '14 at 14:10

user311751user311751

612

share|improve this question

edited Aug 3 '14 at 14:11

Tim

20.2k1586142

asked Aug 3 '14 at 14:10

user311751user311751

612

edited Aug 3 '14 at 14:11

Tim

20.2k1586142

edited Aug 3 '14 at 14:11

Tim

20.2k1586142

asked Aug 3 '14 at 14:10

user311751user311751

612

asked Aug 3 '14 at 14:10

user311751user311751

612

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

0

Had a similar problem but I don't remember what I did exactly.

I'd suggest that if you installed anything that has to do with nvidia drivers, first remove them by running sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*.
Then run the following commands and afterwards reboot your system:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

This way, you can make sure that everything works with the default drivers and only afterwards try to install nvidia stuff.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 18 '14 at 18:34

yaron160yaron160

301128

add a comment | 

0

Use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to open Terminal.

Type dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ and press Enter.

Then type setsid unity and press Enter then restart your machine.

share|improve this answer

edited May 7 '16 at 12:14

swift

2,96621743

answered May 5 '16 at 13:50

SkinDonConnerSkinDonConner

1

add a comment | 

Your Answer

StackExchange.ready(function()
var channelOptions =
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "89"
;
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
createEditor();
);

else
createEditor();

);

function createEditor()
StackExchange.prepareEditor(
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader:
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
,
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
);



);

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);

Sign up using Google

Sign up using Facebook

Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2faskubuntu.com%2fquestions%2f506294%2fcant-see-desktop-except-for-background-when-log-in-ubuntu14-04%23new-answer', 'question_page');

);

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

0

Had a similar problem but I don't remember what I did exactly.

I'd suggest that if you installed anything that has to do with nvidia drivers, first remove them by running sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*.
Then run the following commands and afterwards reboot your system:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

This way, you can make sure that everything works with the default drivers and only afterwards try to install nvidia stuff.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 18 '14 at 18:34

yaron160yaron160

301128

add a comment | 

0

Had a similar problem but I don't remember what I did exactly.

I'd suggest that if you installed anything that has to do with nvidia drivers, first remove them by running sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*.
Then run the following commands and afterwards reboot your system:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

This way, you can make sure that everything works with the default drivers and only afterwards try to install nvidia stuff.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 18 '14 at 18:34

yaron160yaron160

301128

add a comment | 

Had a similar problem but I don't remember what I did exactly.

I'd suggest that if you installed anything that has to do with nvidia drivers, first remove them by running sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*.
Then run the following commands and afterwards reboot your system:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

This way, you can make sure that everything works with the default drivers and only afterwards try to install nvidia stuff.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 18 '14 at 18:34

yaron160yaron160

301128

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 18 '14 at 18:34

yaron160yaron160

301128

answered Aug 18 '14 at 18:34

yaron160yaron160

301128

answered Aug 18 '14 at 18:34

yaron160yaron160

301128

0

Use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to open Terminal.

Type dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ and press Enter.

Then type setsid unity and press Enter then restart your machine.

share|improve this answer

edited May 7 '16 at 12:14

swift

2,96621743

answered May 5 '16 at 13:50

SkinDonConnerSkinDonConner

1

add a comment | 

0

Use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to open Terminal.

Type dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ and press Enter.

Then type setsid unity and press Enter then restart your machine.

share|improve this answer

edited May 7 '16 at 12:14

swift

2,96621743

answered May 5 '16 at 13:50

SkinDonConnerSkinDonConner

1

add a comment | 

Use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to open Terminal.

Type dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ and press Enter.

Then type setsid unity and press Enter then restart your machine.

share|improve this answer

edited May 7 '16 at 12:14

swift

2,96621743

answered May 5 '16 at 13:50

SkinDonConnerSkinDonConner

1

share|improve this answer

edited May 7 '16 at 12:14

swift

2,96621743

answered May 5 '16 at 13:50

SkinDonConnerSkinDonConner

1

edited May 7 '16 at 12:14

swift

2,96621743

edited May 7 '16 at 12:14

swift

2,96621743

answered May 5 '16 at 13:50

SkinDonConnerSkinDonConner

1

answered May 5 '16 at 13:50

SkinDonConnerSkinDonConner

1