gnome/lightdm

[Hendrik Greving]

I'm getting unable to open display: :0 when I try this.
On Apr 1, 2014 6:57 PM, "Martinx - ジェームズ" <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:

> My Unity just got frozen today, I did:
>
> 1- Login anyway using lightdm;
> 2- control + alt + f1 (go back to tty1);
> 3- sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
> 4- export DISPLAY=:0
> 5- xterm
> 6- control + alt + f7 (go back to X)
> 7- Within xterm window, run: dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
> 8- setsid unity
>
>  Source:
> http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-reset-compiz-and-unity-in-ubuntu.html
>
> Maybe that helps!
>
> On 1 April 2014 22:50, Hendrik Greving <hendrik.greving.smi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It was a grey desktop different from the original one. I think it was a
>> default gnome 3 desktop. Not unity. I managed to restore the unity greeter.
>> But now after logging in, it just hangs and no desktop comes up. Basically
>> it just hangs after I log in the unity greeter. I can switch to console
>> with alt-ctrl-f1
>>  On Apr 1, 2014 6:25 PM, "Niles Rogoff" <nilesrogoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I use neither lightdm or gdm, and also have this grey screen. For me it
>>> happends when gnome-shell starts up. It might be part of a different gnome
>>> program such as gnome-session starting up.
>>> I am also slightly confused about what exactly you mean by `grey gnome
>>> desktop'. What exactly does it look like?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Hendrik Greving <
>>> hendrik.greving.smi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I installed gnome-desktop and tried to switch back to lightdm. I
>>>> would like to restore the Ubuntu 13.1 default, the default looked great.
>>>> But now, while I was able to switch back to the unity-greeter, it still
>>>> goes to the grey gnome desktop. I tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
>>>> without success.
>>>> How can I restore the defaults?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Hendrik Greving
>>>>
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