gnome/lightdm

[Hendrik Greving]

Will do. By the way, the last problem I have is that "Enable workspaces"
doesn't work anymore (In settings/Appearance/Behavior). The workspace icon
doesn't show up and also alt-crtl-left/right doesn't work.


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ
<thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Cool! BTW, I'm sure that you'll gonna love Ubuntu 14.04! Got for it bro!
> It is time!    :-D
>
>
> On 2 April 2014 00:59, Hendrik Greving <hendrik.greving.smi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I was able to get unity working again (I installed ubuntu-desktop) and
>> somehow got it working. However, it looks a little bit different. Is there
>> an easy way to get the ubuntu 13.10 defaults again? (e.g. I liked the
>> terminal configurations and the background and the window themes.)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Martín Cigorraga <
>> martincigorraga at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Hendrik,
>>>
>>> Try:
>>> 1. completely uninstall all the GNOME packages you previously installed
>>> 2. export DISPLAY=:1  depending on your HW setup (e. g. hybrid GPUs) you
>>> might need to point to _the other_ display server.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Hendrik Greving <
>>> hendrik.greving.smi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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