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Ubuntu 13.10 - Incomplete Desktop

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 549 / 2 Years ago, thu, february 3, 2022, 10:19:19

I have had a single Ubuntu virtual machine that I have upgrade over the years. It literally has nothing on it except a couple files. I recently decide to upgrade it from I believe 13.04 but I could be mistaken.

A picture is worth a thousand words. How do I reinstall launchpad ( is that what its called ) so regain some sort of control over my virtual machine? I was forced to uninstall Nvidia's drivers because it was booting and my mouse was a X icon.

Before I "installed" 13.10 the virtual machine was working. I have pressed the "Windows Key" and it does nothing. The host machine is Windows x64. The virtual machine itself is a VMWare virtual machine.

If somebody has a better name for the title of this question I am open to suggestions.

Update:

In an attempt to "reset" Unity I was able to determine that compiz ( no idea what this is ) was unable to find the opengl plugin

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answered 2 Years ago otputler · Accepted Answer

I was able to resolve my problem by running the following command.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall compiz compiz-core compiz-gnome
compiz-plugins-default compiz-plugins-main-default
compizconfig-backend-gconf

I then installed dconf-tools

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Since I was using 13.04/13.10 I ran the following command

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

The last command duplicates the function of

unity-reset

As you can see everything is back:

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I was forced to reset the virtual machine ( i.e. hard boot ) in order to get Unity. The terminal window I had stop responding. I had actually had a text editor window open and wasn't able to close that either.