Major problems with Gnome desktop

[joseph14]

Here are some of the problems I'm experiencing:

No menubar at the top of windows, which means they cannot be moved, resized, minimized.

The bottom taskbar has only two windows there, both saying "untitled window," and any programs I open will not show up. In addition, those two untitled windows cannot be closed.

also, I cannot switch between workspaces, that seems to be disabled.

I think I must've installed some conflicting drivers maybe while in Add/Remove software, and after a reboot this problem arised.

any help is very much appreciated.

[MikeTbob]

I would try creating a new user to see if that user has the same problem when logged in, if not then your /home/.gnome2 might be corrupted.

[joseph14]

The problems aren't affecting the new user, so is there a way I can fix my other user account?

[MikeTbob]

I don't know about fixing it, I'm not too familiar with that part but you can reset gnome to defaults. You'll lose all your stored gnome settings like themes and backgrounds, maybe a few other things.

cd ~

mv .gnome2 gnome2.old

restart gnome.

[jayd512]

Just a silly question... is the user1 profile in "Full-Screen"? Hit F11.

[joseph14]

I made a new user and I guess I'll just live with that, ain't the end of the world

Thanks for the response

[lovefist233]

lol, just open a terminal and

cd /home/<yourusername>/

rm -rf .gnome*

Then reboot and log back in