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Nothing on my screen but icons

jguerra0012

Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:15:08 am

Hello, im new to Linux, as Zorin is my first distro, but just recently i booted into linux and now i have no task bar or anything on the borders of my screen. Just icons, is there a way to get them back?

jahboi

Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:52:59 pm

just installed the zorin os 5 core on my pc, after loggin in,it just shows a blank blue screen with the mouse pointer.


pls help.

#newbie

jahboi

Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:36:08 pm

new to linux
using zorin core 5
i installed on my inspirion M5030,
now after loggin on, it shows a blue blank screen
i observed that there are gnome options just at the bottom of the screen,
i changed it to safemode > gnome (safemode), from gnome(classic)
and i could view my desktop, files and folders.

is this normal ?, would i have to change the gnome to safemode all the time ( sounds like somethings would definitely be disabled)

also during installation, i didnt see any option to set the size for swap or ,/ directory

Wolfman

Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:20:16 pm

Was this a clean install, or did you write over another OS but not format the "/home" partition??. If you had another OS on the drive, there could well be conflicting files in the /home folder!!.

Regards Wolfman:)

jahboi

Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:24:29 pm

i installed alongside win 7
what i did of recent, is instead of using gnome (safemode) at logon, i use classic (without effect)
and its been fine.

i guess thats normal right ?

jahboi

Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:37:10 pm

:), normal could be preceptive right :)
its been ok since, i would let you know if anything changes !:)

quite fascinated and intrigued by zorin :)

Linx

Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:56:51 am

can you right click on the background do you get a menu to come up ?

if so do the following

click add panel
right click on panel > click add to panel
click Menu Bar ( A custom menu bar)

then click System > Preferences > Look changer > windows 7 > ok
reboot

try that =] let us know how it goes

noobz

Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:23:15 am

I have the same problem don't work for me the right click don't have the add panel option!!! please help here's what happen
I went to look changer than logout, at the bottom notice that there's "gnome classic" option and click the tiny tab next to it. then sees that it have "user custom" so i click that to see what it did and so now all i have is icons, no panel, and shortcut keys don't freakin work~!!!!