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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131124/7bb647a4/attachment-0001.html>