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I was working on the system all day on Friday and had it logged out for the weekend. This morning when I try to boot Ubuntu, I'm taken to a screen consisting of the default desktop purple-orange and nothing else. I can right click and use the standard options available, but nothing else. I have tried every possible keyboard shortcut for the terminal (other answers say to run ccsm) but I can't get a terminal to appear.

Is there another way to get the terminal to show up so I can attempt to fix this? Any other workarounds?

user280868
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I had this same issue, and couldn't even get a terminal at tty1. I figured it out, so I came back here to post my solution.

  1. Right click on the desktop, create a folder.
  2. Double-click the folder to load the file explorer.
  3. Navigate to /usr/bin and load terminal (filename is gnome-terminal)
  4. Now run CCSM and enable the Unity plugin. You'll get your stuff back.

Good luck!

sejje
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