Hi, I have beeb reading your post regarding not beeb able to get any apps or file bar on the screen, you might want to try the 2d unity options as i had the same problem when i upgraded, after doing a bit of digging i found in some cases the graphics card was not supports for 11.10 and that a download of the 2d unitty was needed. Once i down loaded it i rebooted and at the log in screen there is an option button, pressing that shows a list of login types with the option for unity 2d. on selecting that and logging in i found my apps showed again.
see link to Ubuntu weboage for unity http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/unity-2d-qt-now-available-in-ppa-for.html Let me know how you get on. Kind Regards Bob On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:15 PM, scoundrel50a <scoundrel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/11/11 15:05, Colin Law wrote: > >> On 8 November 2011 14:46, >> scoundrel50a<scoundrel50a@**gmail.com<scoundrel...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, I have lost my desktop, it wont load when you start the laptop up. >>> Its a >>> lanovo 550 pentium 11.10 preinstalled.....I just had a freeze, restarted >>> and >>> the desktop went, I went into Ctrl+Alt+F2, and ran the command unity >>> ---resetand got the message 'Warning: no DISPLAY variable set, setting >>> it >>> to :0 unity-panel-service: no process found.......anybody know how I can >>> get >>> around that... >>> >> When you say the desktop is gone do you get the normal logon screen >> and then the problem is after logon? >> Do you mean the complete desktop is gone or just the launcher and >> panel? What exactly do you see on the screen? >> What happens if you do Ctrl+Alt+T >> >> Colin >> >> Hi, thanks for your reply.....well I get a log in screen, I get the > music, then the background picture appears, and then nothing else.....I > tried that Ctrl+Alt+T and the terminal appeared...... > > John > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/> >
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