I have been using Ubuntu 11.04 for a couple of weeks with no problems, but now when I boot up, all
I get on screen are the Icons that I have placed their. The 11.04 control Icons normally down the left
hand side of the screen have disappeared. I can open the files associated with the Icons on screen
but I cannot get to the O/S Icons.
It is strange but it looks as if the Desktop display is too big for the monitor screen !
Any thoughts please.
I have tried all the function keys etc to see if I can get in to investigate but to no avail .
Try this…
Switch to a console with Ctrl+Alt+F1
Login with your username then password
then run these 3 commands:
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/compizconfig-1
sudo reboot
and see if Unity works properly when the system reboots.
If not, try again with these 5 commands:
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/compizconfig-1
unity --reset
unity --reset-icons
sudo reboot