Desktop loads, but no dash. Ubuntu 15.04

Question

This all originated when I installed Nvidia drivers from terminal using the xorg edgers PPA.

I have since uninstalled them, but that did not help much.

I can't even open terminal unless it is with ctrl+alt+f7.

I have tried forcing compizconfig to load from a similar question I found, but even after turning the unity plugin on nothing loaded.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

have you tried ctrl+alt+f2 for a terminal, then login

now type:

sudo service lightdm stop

then:

sudo service lightdm stop

lastly:

sudo service lightdm start

This is how to manually restart the display manager. Let us know if this helps.