gnome/lightdm

[Hendrik Greving]

By the way,  after login,  I can actually click on e.g. the battery or
power icon, but no desktop is coming up.
On Apr 1, 2014 7:00 PM, "Hendrik Greving" <hendrik.greving.smi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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