| zurn | Hi everyone, I'm finding my ubuntu studio is behaving weirdly: when I log in it launches QasMixer and firefox, none of the windows have minimize/restore/close buttons on them (i.e. missing the top bar), I don't have a desktop background, and my cursor is a black X....... any clues what might be going on here? This is happening after not using the | 19:01 |
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| zurn | machine for three weeks or so.... using Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS | 19:01 |
| corrinado[m] | Have you checked the dmesg logs? Sounds like something went wrong with xorg. | 19:59 |
| zurn | I've typed dmesg into terminal, can't find anything that says xorg unfortunately | 20:08 |
| corrinado[m] | No other warnings? | 20:55 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: that sounds like the window manager has failed | 21:38 |
| zurn | OvenWerks: that sounds familiar... I think I encountered this problem before but seem to have misplaced my documentation - any suggestions how to restore it? | 21:40 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: I think for 20.04 you would have xfce so there should be a directory called ~/.config/xfce4/ | 21:41 |
| OvenWerks | you shold be able to mv .config/xfce4 .config/xfce4.back | 21:42 |
| OvenWerks | and then log in and that directory will be recreated. | 21:42 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: so at the login screen, without logging in. press ctrl/alt/F2 | 21:43 |
| OvenWerks | this should dump you to a terminal | 21:43 |
| OvenWerks | login there and run the above command | 21:43 |
| OvenWerks | another directory that may need to be removed would be .cache | 21:44 |
| OvenWerks | but try .config/xfce4 first | 21:44 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: maybe for any of these things... | 21:45 |
| OvenWerks | check to make sure your drive is not full with df -h | 21:45 |
| OvenWerks | look for the line with / at the end | 21:46 |
| zurn | Tried "mv .config/xfce4 .config/xfce4.back"... but how do I log back in from the terminal screen? | 21:50 |
| zurn | also, my drive is at 95%, with 5.7G available | 21:51 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: I think 95% is ok. | 21:51 |
| zurn | also, when I type "rm .cache" it says "cannot remove '.cache': it is a directory | 21:52 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: ctrl/alt/F7 (or F1 I can't remember) | 21:52 |
| zurn | Great... I'm back in, but it didn't do the trick. The look of xfce has changed a bit but still missing the top bar on all the windows | 21:53 |
| zurn | Also, this might be an indicator of something: when I open "Window Manager" in the GUI it doesn't actually open, just the spinning wheel forever | 21:54 |
| OvenWerks | can you start anything? like a terminal? | 21:56 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: not sure where to go... may make sure dbus is running | 22:06 |
| OvenWerks | zurn: ps x |grep dbus | 22:07 |
| zurn | ya I'm not sure either.... I might just take this as an incentive to get rid of my dual boot system | 22:12 |
| zurn | running ps x|greb dbus gives some output, but nothing to indicate that it's not running | 22:12 |
| OvenWerks | zurn maybe ask on #xunbutu | 22:13 |
| zurn | will do, g2g for now... thanks a lot as always! | 22:13 |
| OvenWerks | my dbus knowledge | 22:13 |
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