Hi, Sorry if this isn’t the right place for trouble shooting, feel free to let me know where to go if it is wrong.
Ok, as the heading suggests, on start up my nuc has 2 ‘Starting Caja’ instances appearing every second in the lower panel.
No visible cursor, but the ‘cursor’ is there but invisible so I can open menus but no windows open when I click them. Even my favourite Tilda won’t open with F12, so apparently no command line option
Now I admit I was fluffing about with customising themes, and wanted to go back to a default, so in my googling one suggestion was that I hit reset compiz in mate tweak, which I believed to be fairly harmless. That was the last thing I did before last shutdown
If I log in as guest, it is fine, so it is stuffed up settings, but how to change without gui or cli?
It does sound like there are some config settings on your user folder that are stuffed. Hence the guest user’s settings being okay.
That being the case, is it possible to create another user with a name similar to yours, that can be the “new you”? Then, log in as this new, uncorrupted user and delete your old (corrupted) user account (making sure to back up and copy any personal files to your new user folder, of course).
That looks like a great way to fix it but now I really feel like an idiot.
I remember after first installing disabling grub screen either completely or dramatically reducing display time for sake of speed so now I’m not able to access it. Is there a sure fire way to access it?
I can get to the desktop but the only thing that opens are menus, no windows actually open or perhaps are not visible. multiple instances of caja still opening but no windows
Is there a way to go back to default gui setting via cli? I’m no expert but that is where I believe the problem is.
Sorry stevecook172001 , didn’t repond to your suggestion and am locked out of more replys for 24 hr period, yes I believe you are right, will try to do it from cli with googles help.
Normally I would usb boot, copy data, nuke and pave when I get in a situation like this, but I need to learn to fix it as you suggest, would certainly be faster.
How did you do your initial install?, was it a disk or USB install and did you burn the disk at the slowest possible speed and/or; did you fully format the USB stick?, I ask because you seem to have multiple problems and this may be due to read/write errors when you created your bootable media?.
Ah sorry wolfman for the answer delay. It’s on a Nuc so usb install, yeah a formatted usb via gparted. I was just getting on to say that I have created another sudo user, migrated all the data making sure not to include configs. then deleted original sudo user. From now on all my config experimentation will be in a virtual image!
