I just upgraded from Lubuntu 12.10 to Lubuntu 13.04. On the login screen, you know that background image? Well it persists when I log in, even though my account's wallpaper is different. Also, I do not see any files onscreen (so I assume that means the desktop is not displaying) and there is no panel on the bottom (you know, that strip with the application menu button and such). The only way I can even use my account in this fashion is by right clicking on this blank-screen-except-for-the-default-wallpaper to pull up the little openbox application menu or using keyboard shortcuts to pull up terminal. In addition, if I run firefox (which worked perfectly fine before) it crashes the whole system, freezing the screen with a smeared image of the top bar of the firefox window. When I log into Lubuntu as a guest, this issue does not exist - when logged into the guest account, there are those icons on the desktop and I can see the panel on the bottom of the screen with the application menu, application shortcuts, names of open windows, and volume control, time, power button, etc. Even so, firefox still crashes the computer.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW is how I can log into my account so that I do actually have my background, so that I do actually have my panel on the bottom, and so that I do actually have the desktop displayed.
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