Re: Sessions – what am I missing?

[Nandakumar]

There is a tricky way... Try your luck.
You can still access the text mode. So login to that mode and give
this command to reset the root (superuser) password:

sudo passwd

Now set a new password for root and remember it.

Logout or restart. In the login screen, choose 'Other'. Give
username: root
password: the one you set now.

Now open /home/<your_username>
Ctrl+H (to show hidden files)
remove all files and folders with a dot at the starting (you may take
their backup first since it contains your file histories and
settings).
Now restart and login to your account.

Inform me the result.

On 12/28/13, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/12/27 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>
>> On 27 December 2013 20:51, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I can't figure out how to create my own sessions. How hard can it be?
>> > Not
>> > very hard, I hope…
>> >
>> > I have this laptop, and when I'm at home, I use my external screen and
>> the
>> > internal one is turned off (when both are turned on, the graphics card
>> gets
>> > too hot and the fans are at maximum speed all the time).
>> > When I bring my laptop somewhere, I don't bring that external screen,
>> > so
>> I
>> > need to use the internal one.
>> >
>> > If I forget to switch my window settings before leaving, I can't see
>> > anything as soon as I log in, so I can't change it back (I probably
>> could in
>> > text mode, but I don't know how anyway).
>> >
>> > So I want to save a ”use internal screen only-session” so that I can
>> start
>> > it from the login screen (which always use the internal screen), which
>> I'm
>> > pretty sure was possible in older versions of Ubuntu. I have 12.04 now,
>> and
>> > I can't really find a way to do this!
>>
>> Is there not a hot key on the laptop to cycle through the options,
>> Internal, External, Mirrored and Extended?  On mine it is Fn+F7
>>
>
> Oh… yes, seems to be Fn+F11 on mine. Thanks!
>
>
> Still, I'd like to know about sessions. Could be useful anyway, in other
> situations.
>
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
>
>
>>
>> Colin
>>
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