06-11-2010, 12:45 PM
Well, the good thing about Ubuntu or any other Opensource Operating System is that it is highly customizable. Most people like me use this functionality very often and sometimes land in troubles knowingly or unknowingly. In that case, there is a simple solution :
1) Create a New user with Administrator privileges and migrate all your important documents from old user and delete the old user.
2) For the alternative method, you will have to use "Ubuntu's Virtual console" i.e press CTRL+ALT+F1. Login to your account and type the following command :-
Now press ALT+F7 to return to your desktop and it should now be working fine with default setup. Else reboot and it should work now.
#The whole point behind both of these processes is that Gnome desktop depends upon various configuration files which are user specific. Any changes a user does, are written to these files. Creating a new user or deleting these will reconfigure them to default and that will solve the problem.
Njoy !!
1) Create a New user with Administrator privileges and migrate all your important documents from old user and delete the old user.
2) For the alternative method, you will have to use "Ubuntu's Virtual console" i.e press CTRL+ALT+F1. Login to your account and type the following command :-
Quote:rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity
Now press ALT+F7 to return to your desktop and it should now be working fine with default setup. Else reboot and it should work now.
#The whole point behind both of these processes is that Gnome desktop depends upon various configuration files which are user specific. Any changes a user does, are written to these files. Creating a new user or deleting these will reconfigure them to default and that will solve the problem.
Njoy !!
