I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 for some weeks now dual booted with Vista on a Dell Inspiron laptop. I use a dual monitor set up which was working fine. I unplugged my laptop once from the external monitor and upon restarting in Ubuntu - after logging in - I got the following error message. (I still get the same error if plugging into an external monitor too.)
Error on line 1 char 1:
Document must begin with an element (e.g. <book>)
Could not apply the stored configuration for monitors.
I have already tried troubleshooting this online and have tried the following:
sudo apt-get -f install- removing the
~/.config/monitors.xmlfile
Neither of which fixed the problem.
The taskbar is not visible and the keyboard doesn't work (CTRL-ALT-T doesn't bring up the terminal for example and CTRL-ALT-TAB doesn't work either). There is no top bar for windows with the buttons to close or minimise/maximise and so the only way to close files is to you CTRL-Q which for some reason still works.
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
