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my desktop went away. and I couldn't access any program. and I just see the purple screen. the only thing I could do is to open the home. plus i couldn't access the terminal Ctrl+alt+T is not working , how should I overcome this issue and what happenend ? thank you inadvance

ps : I run ubuntu 14.04 in vmware machine

Edit : this link was not resolved my problem because unity plugin was not appearing in the compizconfig and the problem was due to deleting python package.

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Python is a pretty core package, a lot of things depend on it (including much of the GUI). You can re-install the Ubuntu GUI using:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

if you problems with Python versions, it's best to leave the system Python alone and use virtualenvs.

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