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bradRNstyle
November 19th, 2010, 02:03 AM
I am using Ubuntu v10.04 (Ultimate Linux) with the Gnome desktop environment. I tried another desktop environment (it comes with many) and it failed. Now I only boot to a grey screen and can't set it back to Gnome (or any) environment. I can boot to a command line in recovery mode, but how can I set my GUI back to Gnome (or KDE) from the command line? Please help I am 100% Linux and stuck with no computer in the middle of the semester at medical school!

tom4everitt
November 19th, 2010, 09:53 PM
To launch Gnome from command line, try:



start gdm

(after you've logged in, of course).

If that works, you can set your preferred login manager in System->Administration->Login Screen

tom4everitt
November 19th, 2010, 09:58 PM
If that fails, you can also try to reinstall ubuntu-desktop. Hopefully it will ask you if you want to set the login manager during install. To reinstall ubuntu-desktop, do:



sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

bradRNstyle
December 12th, 2010, 03:39 AM
thanks for the help. its working again.