[Solved] I broke Gnome

Dethredic · 2011-07-31 15:36:04

I have been playing with Gnome Shell for the the last couple days. I was doing some stuff this morning (a bunch of different things), then I rebooted and just got a black screen with my mouse (which I could move around). GDM auto logs me in.

I regenerated my xorg.conf (even though I wasn't playing with that), and that didn't help.

Is there a way to kind of "restore gnome" or something or how should I go about troubleshooting this?

I can hit ctrl+alt+f2 to get to another terminal window.

Last edited by Dethredic (2011-08-01 18:00:07)

litemotiv · 2011-07-31 15:42:32

Depends on what you did? One thing to try is to rename your Gnome user config dir temporarily and let it be created with default settings.

Dethredic · 2011-07-31 16:24:48

litemotiv wrote:

Depends on what you did? One thing to try is to rename your Gnome user config dir temporarily and let it be created with default settings.

Thanks, renaming my .config folder fixed it

karol · 2011-07-31 18:50:50

Dethredic wrote:

litemotiv wrote:
Depends on what you did? One thing to try is to rename your Gnome user config dir temporarily and let it be created with default settings.
Thanks, renaming my .config folder fixed it

Cool. Can you please mark this thread as solved?

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#1 2011-07-31 15:36:04

[Solved] I broke Gnome

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