Desktop Issues

[Steve M.]

After installing Steam, I lost everything on the desktop except for the Steam shortcut. I can't access anything except the terminal. Is there any resolution for this or do I have to remove the partition?

[thetargos]

What do you mean by "lost everything on the desktop", and "partition"? 1st what Desktop (assuming you installed on Linux), what distro as well? How is your system setup, etc. A bit more info would yield better results from the folks that might attempt helping you.

[Shark]

could you be more specific? What did you do before this happened?

[Steve M.]

That comment was made in a kind of panic. It was a compiz error. Ive attempted several fixes but nothing has worked.

[Saner than a coconut]

Which linux distro do you use? I had a similar experience in unity on ubuntu 13.04, but got fixed by re-enabling unity in ccsm.

[Steve M.]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10. I've tried the following
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
dconf reset -f /org/compiz
setsid unity

Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amith/ubuntutools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-reset

and

unity-reset
sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

Each of the 3 fixes made the screen flicker a bit but in the end I ended with the same results.

[Saner than a coconut]

do you have ccsm installed? I just used that, and there was a button somewhere to re-enable unity. It's what worked for me, though I can't guarantee it will work.