How to restore Unity when it disappears in Ubuntu 11.10
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Well, after playing around the compizConfig Setting Manager I somehow screwed up the whole system. Unity along with any kind of menu was gone. Terminal Windows did not come up when pressing ALT+F# and even ctrl+alt+delete were not working. The only way terminal was able to come up was by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T . I did
unity --reset
but it did not work. What worked for me was typing:
ccsm
and enabling it again, disabling everything else that was conflicting. Hope this helps in case you are looking for the solution. 🙂
November 4th, 2011 19:24
You saved me from the desktop’s prison. I love you.
November 6th, 2011 17:16
Thanks. 🙂 Had to save my own desktop from prison after messing with those settings, haha.
November 7th, 2011 02:59
i screwed up in such a way that now even Ctrl Alt T doenst works anymore. same for Alt Tab or whatever other Alt combination I can think of .. shitt
November 7th, 2011 03:33
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November 8th, 2011 18:40
Yeah, I feel your pain. Try booting into single user mode in GRUB on boot and reset unity from there. More info here – https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 . Please update us with the solution if it worked. Thanks.
April 21st, 2012 01:10
Thanks brother you saved me from re-installation of OS.
Thanks a lot………..