When I get stuck with things like this, I often create a new user on the box and test with that user rather than my own account. So many times these issues are in your "profile" ($HOME/.config) and reinstalling won't help. Gerry On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Andrew Dahl wrote: > > I don't know a lot about cinnamon or gnome, but have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling cinnamon? You may have to > move your config files elsewhere for that to work, but it's an idea if you're not seeing any errors being printed by > cinnamon. Alternatively you could install KDE or GNOME to get you through your mentoring session, provided this problem is > specific to cinnamon and not the X Server. > > Hope you get it figured out! > > -Andrew > > On Nov 24, 2013 1:07 AM, "Kat Toomajian" <zarhooie at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, folks. :) > > I had a CATAstrophe this evening where my friend's cat did the two-step on my keyboard. Somewhere in her > keyboard smash, she managed to do something really funky with the desktop. As far as I can tell, she managed > to uninstall Cinnamon, or at least break it to the point where I can't do anything with it. > > I have tried restarting the computer, and also Cinnamon via the run cinnamon --restart command. Nothing has > any effect. I am backing up data in case the final answer is to reinstall the OS, but I am hopeful that won't > have to happen. I am especially hopeful because I am supposed to be mentoring newbie devs tomorrow in the > mysterious ways of "documenting your code" and I kind of need to be online for that. > > Anyone have any ideas? I am stumped. > > Kat > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >