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Dumitru Cristian
Asked: 2014-07-28 00:20:27 +0800 CST

No more icons on my desktop [duplicate]

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Ubuntu 14.04. I have 2 user accounts. This problems appears only for one of it. I have no more icons on my desktop, neither the launcher, just the desktop picture. Right click still works, so I can access system settings. When using gnome, everything works perfect.

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3 Answers

  1. Try changing your screen resloution in system settings to a lower one than currently selected.

    I've had such a problem before when using a projector, that could only handle 720p. The settings were 1080p by default and the "overflow" was just cut off, so I could only see the center of the output.

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  2. Ty restarting the GDM. To restart GDM, switch to Ctrl+Alt+F1, login, andt ype the command

    sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

    Then when you get the [OK], switch back with Ctrl+Alt+F7.

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  3. Try to restart unity Get terminal using ctrl+alt+T Run this command

     sudo service gdm restart
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