Hello,
I am using Linux mint 18.3 on a Lenovo I7 laptop. I have a problem with one of my user accounts. I was downloading last night so my laptop was on all night and all day today. I used the mint updater to run three updates that were released today. As I was working I noticed my cpu cores were running wide open like an open web page was running a mining script so I shut down and rebooted. After rebooting the machine will show the decrypt screen and then the user log in screen. I enter the main user password and the screen tries to open. I see the cursor and the task bar at the bottom. Then the screen goes black. If I reboot and log in with a secondary user account all works as it should. As a matter of fact I am on the same machine now using my secondary account to type this.
I am using 384.11 driver for Nvidia graphics.
I have no idea where to start looking to diagnose this so any help would be appreciated.
Desktop goes black
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Desktop goes black
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Re: Desktop goes black
Try creating a new user and check if everything works.
Of yes then you can move the files from old user to new and change ownership to new user
Of yes then you can move the files from old user to new and change ownership to new user
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Regards,
Deepak
Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 64 bit with AMD A6 / 8GB
Mint 21.1 Cinnamon AMD Ryzen3500U/8gb
Regards,
Deepak
Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 64 bit with AMD A6 / 8GB
Mint 21.1 Cinnamon AMD Ryzen3500U/8gb
Re: Desktop goes black
Thanks I was just working on that. But I am the type that likes to know why something doesn't work.
If anyone has any ideas I am still hoping to figure it out.
If anyone has any ideas I am still hoping to figure it out.
Re: Desktop goes black
We experienced the same problem, and noticed that when pointing to the solid colour background it says "No Desktop Background" and we could find no indication that selecting it and assigning a colour resulted in making a configuration change.
The solution, or perhaps more appropriately called work around we found was to create a jpg image of a landscape containing a background colour we wanted to be used as the Desktop background with Gimp, and selected that for our background.
We made a folder in home called background and saved the jpg image there rather than save it in /usr/share/backgrounds/... so it would remain available after system upgrades.
The solution, or perhaps more appropriately called work around we found was to create a jpg image of a landscape containing a background colour we wanted to be used as the Desktop background with Gimp, and selected that for our background.
We made a folder in home called background and saved the jpg image there rather than save it in /usr/share/backgrounds/... so it would remain available after system upgrades.