Il giorno dom, 13/03/2011 alle 14.43 +0000, Phil Holmes ha scritto: > Nothing to do with LilyPond, but don't know where else to ask. > > I've been creating an Ubuntu VM to install an open-source telephone > exchange, Asterix. All going well until I had to compile a package called > Dahdi. This failed on an include, and so I was trying to edit the source > file. It's owned by root and so logged in as phil, it was read-only. I > thought that rather than learn the syntax of chmod, I'd just briefly log in > as root. I clicked the "log-off" button and switched user to root. All the > desktop furniture disappeared - no task bar, no Places, no logout, nothing. > So I shut down using the VM command and restarted. Same. I'm shown as > logged in as phil, but I can't do anything at all. Anyone any ideas of how > to get my desktop back? >
I guess that you are just seeing a terminal. So log as phil and then launch this command: startx You should see again your desktop. You don't have to change the owner or the permissions of an installation file. Open it using sudo: sudo nano file or sudo gedit file HTH, Federico _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel