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JorgeeFG
Asked: 2016-12-01 17:43:23 +0800 CST

I dropped brigthness to 0 in compizconfig. How to recover

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I was testing the brightness, opacity and saturation plugin and dropped the brigthness to 0, now without having apply (but pressed ESC), I can´t control my Ubuntu anymore (all windows are black). How can I recover from this?

compiz

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  1. Best Answer

    Press Ctrl + Alt + F1 to go to TTY mode, type your user name and password. Then run following command to restore compiz setting.

    rm  -rf ~/.compiz-1 ~/.config/compiz-1

    To access GUI again, press Ctrl + Alt + F7

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