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Lost desktop - LarryB1607 - 10-28-2020
After booting up and logon, I noticed a message in the upper right corner. I cicked on it and my desktop changed. No deskyop icons opanel and its icons. Just a flashing message in the upper right saying that my bettery is charging. This is a laptop and LLOS 5.0 is running from a USB HDD. The batter for this laptop is dead and I run the PC strictly on AC so the battery will not charge.
I however have no idea how to get out of this. Shutdown, restart and relogon brings me back to the same point. I found task manager, but with >200 cryptic tasks listed, I have no @%$! idea what it might be.
please help,
thanks
Re: Lost desktop - LarryB1607 - 10-30-2020
I am trying to restore a Timeshift snapshot. I put one on a USB drive that was formatted to Ext4. Timeshift seems to have forgotten where I put these files I have tried to reset up TS to use that location, but they still do not show up so I cannot use them to do a restore. I have highlighted the files and tried to send them to TS, but that still does not work.
Also If I do get this running or restored, is there something I can disable so that the system does not check the battery state. It seems to me that the system is preserving resources while it tries to recharge a dead battery.
I can go on the internet by running the web browser app. However there is no sound in anything that should have sound. I got back my wallpaper, but all attempts to create desktop icons or a panel have had no success.
Re: Lost desktop - LarryB1607 - 11-01-2020
I did a restore using Timeshift. It looked like I was in business. I had my wallpaper at login screen. I logged in and heard the logon sound and then before the desktop icons showed, it went directly to other wallpaper with no icons or panel. I have an old snapshot of LLOS 4.8 I might try or just give up on this and start over with Mint.
Re: Lost desktop - Valtam - 11-02-2020
Fresh install 5.2
Re: Lost desktop - LarryB1607 - 11-02-2020
I got things working fairly well, won't 5.2 come as an update?
Re: Lost desktop - Moltke - 11-02-2020
(11-02-2020, 06:10 PM)LarryB1607 link Wrote: I got things working fairly well, won't 5.2 come as an update?
Yes, it should. Just give it a time and surely it will come up.
Re: Lost desktop - firenice03 - 11-03-2020
(11-02-2020, 09:39 PM)Moltke link Wrote: [quote author=LarryB1607 link=topic=7774.msg54075#msg54075 date=1604340615]
I got things working fairly well, won't 5.2 come as an update?
Yes, it should. Just give it a time and surely it will come up.
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[member=11699]LarryB1607[/member]
Use "Lite Upgrade" to upgrade within a series - I would do a standard update prior to upgrading...
Re: Lost desktop - LarryB1607 - 11-03-2020
Thanks for those replies. Found something else not working correctly. VLC media player will load into panel, but not open itself or anything else. How can I reinstall it. Not sure if an upgrade would fix this.
thanks