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I get a blank desktop after logging in on Lubuntu 14.04. Have tried following this wonderful guide (among others), but it doesn't work for me. I have installed Unity and enabled it, but maybe this doesn't do the trick because it's Lubuntu?

I also tried installing Xfce environment, but I don't get anything on the desktop then either.

I should add that I'm still not good at Linux and noticed that I have managed to remove several paths from my PATH variable when setting it (shortly before these problems appeared). Just though I'd mention if it could have anything to do with my problems.

Also, I can only get to the terminal by Ctrl + Alt + F1 and right clicking on desktop doesn't do anything.

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My speculations about the problem having to do with the PATH variable in fact turned out to be correct. I had added a new path in the file /etc/environment, but instead of adding it to the end of the already existing row with paths, I added it as a new line afterwards (as I wasn't sure how it should be done and just thought I'd give it a try).

Apparently this gave rise to the problem of not getting any icons or being able to do anything from my desktop (as well as a lot of other problems I'm sure, that I probably would have noticed had I actually been able to do something!).

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