Black screen with cursor after shell extension

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gpapaioa
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Black screen with cursor after shell extension

Post by gpapaioa » 2019/01/11 23:47:16

After trying to install a simple shell extension (https://github.com/corecoding/Vitals), my system broke..

a) i get a black screen with white cursor and nothing is happening after Starting the GNOME Display Manager
b) after using 3 on the grub menu I managed to log in normally from the command line. running startx after that, i get a black environment with only my desktop icons. All applications work OK except I have no panel, bars etc..
c) tried to reinstall the GNOME environment, did it but again the same problems.

Any ideas how to properly, re-install the GUI? Thank you.

HUsam
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Re: Black screen with cursor after shell extension

Post by HUsam » 2019/01/12 01:01:34

command line. running startx
i think using systemctl is better than using startx

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sudo systemctl start graphical.target
check if that gnome-shell-extension-vitals still in your extensions folder then remove it

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~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
or open

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gnome-tweaks
then from menu click reset to defaults
and check these links
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomePanel
viewtopic.php?t=54705

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