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[garypeg <876227@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:04 PM, G. <pegngaryubuntu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Thurman
> <876227@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The problem here is almost certainly that you have turned off the Unity
>> plugin when turning on the wobbly windows plugin. (Possibly this
>> happened automatically.)
>>
>> Here is how to get your desktop back:
>>
>> 1. Press ctrl-T to get a new tab.
>> 2. Press ctrl-L to let you type a path, and type "/usr/bin".
>> 3. In /usr/bin, find gnome-terminal and double-click it.
>> 4. Now in gnome-terminal type "ccsm" and turn the Unity plugin back on.
>>
>> Two possible workarounds for the future:
>>
>> * Don't allow the Unity plugin to be disabled by ccsm if Unity is running-- at all. According to didrocks there was a bug about this at some point, but I can't find it now.
>> * Have a program that runs on login which checks whether Unity is disabled, and if it is puts up a dialogue saying "Unity is disabled; re-enable it? Yes, no, don't ask again."
>
> Ok, will give it a try!
>
> garyk
>
>

snip

WHen I went back in unity worked.  Somehow it recovered.


garyk

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  Unity fails to load and will not reset

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