The launcher bars may be hidden - just hover the mouse on those borders of the screen. If the launchers don't pop out, then there is some other problem.
--Bruce On 11/7/2012 10:55 AM, michael miller wrote: > I was beginning to think that posting the question to the group had > actually fixed the problem. It recurred this morning for the first time > since the original post. Your suggestion, run startx, did bring up the > gui which looked normal except that the app launcher bars at the side > and top of the screen were missing. > > Mike > > On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 21:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, michael miller<k4...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> I get a normal command line login prompt and can log in. Everything >>> appears completely normal until booting halts at the command line login. >> OK. The next time that happens -- you get a text-only login prompt >> -- login normally, and run the command >> >> startx >> >> That will start the X GUI from a text-only command prompt session. >> If that doesn't work, either, it's likely some problem with the video >> card or driver. If that works, it's prolly something to do with what >> services/options the system is starting with. >> >>> The reason I thought that it might be a grub issue is that the grub menu >>> lists as one option entering "c" to boot to a command line. >> That "c" option refers to going to the GRUB command line, where you >> can manually issue commands to prepare to boot Linux. >> >> -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
