GeistDev
May 13th, 2009, 12:03 AM
Ok so I am using and older Dell (with on-board graphics card) and have been running Kubuntu 9.04 fine and loving it. I was bored earlier and was tampering with the desktop settings and I clicked "enable desktop effects"... horrible mistake. Kubuntu froze. I restarted Kubuntu and to my dismay, the settings had been saved. I logged in with my username and password, but then the screen forever stays at the gray login-splash screen. I can move the cursor around but nothing more happens - my guess because the KDE4 desktop can't load the "desktop effects" on my system.
So what I need to know now is how do I reverse this with no use of GUI and not even being able to log in? The ALT-SHIFT-F12 trick won't work here as I have seen others say since I can't get into the desktop... Is there a command I can run in bash to DISABLE the desktop effects?
Please help me out here, I would HATE to have to reinstall and start over (I just got everything the way I wanted it :()
So what I need to know now is how do I reverse this with no use of GUI and not even being able to log in? The ALT-SHIFT-F12 trick won't work here as I have seen others say since I can't get into the desktop... Is there a command I can run in bash to DISABLE the desktop effects?
Please help me out here, I would HATE to have to reinstall and start over (I just got everything the way I wanted it :()