Just ran into a similar issue on my laptop, which is a Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960 running Intel graphics. In that case, I at least got a wallpaper and mouse cursor, but still no visible windows until I did a unity --replace. That brought up a visible terminal window without decorations and stuck in the upper-left corner, and produced a crash (Bug #932125). Since I couldn't get past Firefox back to my terminal, I did a Ctrl+Alt+F1, logged into a tty and ran unity --reset there, which also fixed the issue on my laptop.
>From what I've seen on my machines and from what I've heard in IRC, this issue is graphics-independent. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963633 Title: Unity 5.8: Entire screen stays solid black except the mouse cursor when logged into Unity 3D, but can still "use" the desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/963633/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
