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Hello,

I'm pretty new to Linux and completely new to Linux Mint
I'm running Linux Mint 14 Mate on my desktop and up to yesterday everything was fine. I then tried to download different themes of which some did not really work. Also I installed wine and a windows-program. Today, I started the computer again and an empty desktop was provided from the system.

• The wallpaper was gone

• the panel including the menu disappeared

• I can't switch between programs with ALT+TAB anymore

I tried to find the solution by searching this forum as well as the internet but didn't succeed so far. One point seems really strange to me:
When I right-click on the desktop and open the "change background of the desktop" (I'm not sure if it's the correct translation to english), the window is called Cinnamon-settings! I thought I'm running Mate???

Another thing: I figured out, I can start the panel by opening a terminal with CTRL+ALT+T and then enter "mate-panel". But it disappears again when I close the terminal and ALT+TAB still does not work.

Also I tried to install the .deb-packages suggested here but two of them had errors during installation due to dependencies to packages of which my system has different versions

Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!

Exactly the same thing has happened to me! Did you find a solution?

Wolfson & gbanjo

did you try using the terminal and type in:
or
then delete you mate folder located in your home folder .config/mate