ubuntu 19.04 desktop irresponsive

**aloboaleu** · October 28th, 2019

After (perhaps too much) tweaking the desktop (with the TWEAK app), the desktop does not work any more: I do not see the icons and main menu,
the mouse works but clicking on icons (including shutdown on top right) does nothing.
All I can do is Ctrl-Alt F1 and then log in and run

Code:

sudo shutdown -h now

Then I can start using another desktop (LXDE). If I enter selecting Ubuntu, I get stuck and have to shutdown using the aforementioned procedure.
Any way to reocver the functionality of the default Ubuntu desktop?

**deadflowr** · October 28th, 2019

The command

Code:

dconf reset -f  /

will reset the desktop to the system defaults.
It needs to be run from a graphical desktop session.
(Or at least needs an X display running.)

But if you can log into lxde you can run the command from there, then log out and try the Ubuntu session to see if it helped.