Linpus lite -- Desktop shows black and white bars.

[humblemedia]

Hello,

I am newbie in the sense that I don't really know how to fix problems in linux without googling them and finding the solution in forums. I prefer ubuntu (which I have been meaning to install for a while) but my netbook currently has linpus lite on it. (It's an acer aspire one). I am having a strange problem that I can't seem to find any information on despite a somewhat extensive search.

One night I left the netbook sitting open (forgot to close it), and when I went to use it the next day, when I started it up, the desktop did not show the normal icons in the background. It still showed the bar at the bottom with the connection icon, power icon, etc. as well as the "Internet" search bar in the top right corner. But intead of the usual linpus desktop icons, there are just black and white horizontal bars, with some coloured dots in the black bars. I can still use the terminal to open firefox, and presumably other programs. It still connects to wifi signals, and the bottom bar looks normal and functional. I am posting this message right now with my netbook, and it doesn't seem to have lost any functionality, so really I guess it's not that big of a deal. However, it's very annoying. I would much rather just click on things most of the time instead of opening terminal for everything.

I have had luck searching these forums before, and this is the first time I've ever had to post anything, but I have to admit I have no idea what is going on, and can't seem to find anything that helps no matter what search terms I try. If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Which version of Linpus are you using? Is this state persistent after 2-3 reboots?

[humblemedia]

I am using Linpus Linux Lite v1.0.3. It has remained this way for probably 15 or 20 reboots.

[devils casper]

It looks like something is wrong with user confs. Try to use a new theme or create a new User.

[humblemedia]

It looks like something is wrong with user confs. Try to use a new theme or create a new User.

Could you explain how to do that from terminal? It would save me a lot of time. Thanks.

[rokytnji]

Could you explain how to do that from terminal? It would save me a lot of time. Thanks.

Since DC isn;t here right now. I think Linpus is nothing more than a tweaked Fedora 8 distro.
So see if using below link will help for adding new user in Linpus maybe.

Fedora Adding Users

[humblemedia]

Thanks, that's probably close to how I would do it if I had any icons or menus to click on, but the background is just these useless black and white bars, and I have to do everything from terminal.

[rokytnji]

Thanks, that's probably close to how I would do it if I had any icons or menus to click on, but the background is just these useless black and white bars, and I have to do everything from terminal.

OOps. My bad.

2 commands to try in terminal are (should probably log in terminal as root)

su

then your password

 adduser

or

man useradd

[rokytnji]

Look at below link. It is better at explaining

Managing Fedora Linux Users and Groups - Techotopia

[jayd512]

I think you're right, Roky... Linpus is a Fedora spin.

To add a user, just do:

su -
<root password>
useradd user_name
passwd user_name

Done. Log out of your user, log in to the new one.