[ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop not loading at startup

[Colin Law]

On 10 November 2011 09:18, scoundrel50a <scoundrel50a at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/11 09:08, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 10 November 2011 08:41, scoundrel50a<scoundrel50a at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Hi Tony, if you remember I said that using the Icon in the panel was not
>>> an
>>> option it just didnt work so I couldnt bring up the desktops , but I went
>>> back to Compiz>Desktop, and found that if I clicked on Expo, I could use
>>> the
>>> icon again, and it bought back the workspaces.......problem is, all this
>>> fiddling to get everything back and working, the amount of buttons I
>>> pressed
>>> which stated what I was pressing was in conflict with something or other
>>> (and this is what is annoying, it doesnt give you an option to not change
>>> something) there must be something somewhere that is still broken, and I
>>> have no clue why......but I do now have the Panel and the bar at the top
>>> back, and I can swap between windows, but dont ask me how that
>>> happened......there needs to be a manual on compiz in 11.10, because I
>>> have
>>> seen quite a few articles written about how you can so easily have your
>>> system broken with compiz.....I was just glad that I was able to bring up
>>> the compiz box....otherwise it might have been a new install.......
>>
>> As a matter of interest did you try doing unity --reset again after
>> enabling the Ubuntu Unity Plugin?  This is supposed to reset
>> everything.  There is a bug report for the fact that it does not cope
>> with the plugin disabled.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/881639.  Ideally anything else
>> that it does not cope with should be reported also.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Hi Colin, I did the unity --reset to start when my desktop disappeared, but
> its the first I have seen about having to do it after........problem is, I
> just pressed buttons when it came to the conflicts almost all of them, I
> have no idea what they even meant, so i couldnt tell what was conflicted
> with what......so posting bug reports would have been impossible for me,
> because I wouldnt have even known what was a bug or not.....

Yes I realise that.  I should have suggested trying reset again after
enabling the plugin.

Colin