Have you tried pointing your mouse at the screen corners or edges? It might trigger a dock to scroll in. On Aug 13, 2012 10:42 PM, <ch.al...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> I have just upgraded my old Dell dektop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 > using Canonical's official disk. So far I am the only user . > When I log in (as myself) I see the standard wall paper but no icons > menu bars task bars etc. > > If I right click on desktop I get a few options to create new folder / > document, re-arrange the (invisible) icons & "Change Ddesktop > Background". > The last option gives me a window to maintain several other "system" > system settings. I cannot close this window. > > If there is no action, the screen goes blank but comes back again with > some "movement" of mouse or keyboard. At this point is asks for a > password to unlock the screen which works fine. > > The only "refined" way to logout, is by using Control - Alt - Delete > which gives me a set eof tions to log out or shut down. This works > well. > > How do I resolve this? > > At one stage I thought I had an issue with the screen driver but the > behavior described above suggests that is not the real problem. > I suspect that the software to manage the icons etc has has been > invoked and this must be resolved at $ prompt. > > Can any one advise > 1) How to get to $ prompt? > 2) What to do when I get there? > > PS I am writing this message from another PC > > Regards > Chris Allen > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
