Only desktop wallpaper after login F15

Timothy Davis cpuobsessed at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 20:41:57 UTC 2012


On 01/17/2012 03:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 08:59 AM, Freak Trick wrote:
>> I formatted and reinstalled. Again it worked fine the first time. But
>> next boot gave the same problem. Moreover without being able to access
>> the desktop, I am short of ideas to do anything to resolve the problem.
>>
>> Any workarounds?
>
> I'm not sure what's going on, but if it happened twice, the third 
> time's not likely to be any better.  However, I take it you're not 
> comfortable enough with a CLI to try to work out what's going on that 
> way.  Why not try installing at least one other DE, such as KDE or 
> XFCE along with Gnome?  Then, when (not if) it happens again, you can 
> try your secondary DE and have a chance to do some forensics, such as 
> groveling through /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Can you post a screenshot?

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