Ok, I have tried everyones suggestions, and still no change, so am assuming I am going to have to do a fresh install. Thanks everyone for your attempts, if nothing else, I have learned alot of code LOL
Ok, I have tried everyones suggestions, and still no change, so am assuming I am going to have to do a fresh install. Thanks everyone for your attempts, if nothing else, I have learned alot of code LOL
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Sorry, I was responding with the fresh install reply when you posted that, I am going to try your advice. Thanks
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- Boot up.
- Ctrl Alt F1 at login screen.
- Login in text mode.
- sudo apt-get install xfce4
Once you restart, you should be able to choose an Xfce4 session from the session chooser on the login screen.
Ok, I did that, but still no panels or icons, just background. But now I get an error message that nautilus cannot launch due to bonobo-activation-server problem.
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hit <ctrl>+<alt>+F1 at the login screen, sign in to that virtual terminal and do:
seems the problem is to do with the package, so try re-installing it.Code:sudo apt-get install --reinstall libbonobo2-bin
Natilus shouldn't be trying to launch. You're supposed to choose an Xfce-session; not a Gnome-session.
Once you've got a working desktop environment other than gnome, you can then go about comfortably investigating why gnome isn't working.
Thank you all so much for the help, I now have a working desktop in ubuntu, now if I can only figure out why gnome will not work, cause I sure can't figure out how to set up this xfce thing,
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You'll probably find Xfce easier to learn than Gnome. Until you open up synaptic and install a bunch of extra packackages for Xfce (mcs-plugins-extra, xfce4-goodies, etc), onyl expect basic functionality, though.
With regards to Gnome, have you created a second user account yet and tried to log into a fresh Gnome desktop? And have you reinstalled all your bonobo components yet?
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