Il giorno dom, 13/03/2011 alle 14.43 +0000, Phil Holmes ha scritto:
Nothing to do with LilyPond, but don't know where else to ask.
I've been creating an Ubuntu VM to install an open-source telephone
exchange, Asterix. All going well until I had to compile a package
called
Dahdi. This failed on an include, and so I was trying to edit the source
file. It's owned by root and so logged in as phil, it was read-only. I
thought that rather than learn the syntax of chmod, I'd just briefly log
in
as root. I clicked the "log-off" button and switched user to root. All
the
desktop furniture disappeared - no task bar, no Places, no logout,
nothing.
So I shut down using the VM command and restarted. Same. I'm shown as
logged in as phil, but I can't do anything at all. Anyone any ideas of
how
to get my desktop back?
I guess that you are just seeing a terminal.
So log as phil and then launch this command:
startx
You should see again your desktop.
You don't have to change the owner or the permissions of an installation
file.
Open it using sudo:
sudo nano file
or
sudo gedit file
HTH,
Federico