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Weird behaviour of the desktop at login.

Asked by smurf

luca@pc-sala:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
luca@pc-sala:~$

I use Mate and Compiz, my system has 3 users. This question affect only one user, the others 2 work perfectly.
I made a fresh install of Xenial with Mate, no problems at all. After a while (I don't know exactly when) my account started to mess the login: the background wallpaper (a simple and small photo, centred) appears after about 20 seconds, the LIghtdm wallpaper stay on the screen all the time, often the cairo-dock pop up in a black area that disappears when the wallpaper appears.
But the worst thing is that the desktop is empty: no files, no folders and the mouse left and right click don't work. Searching and searching I realized that this behaviour is similar to the result of disabling the option "show icons on desktop" in dconf, but in my dconf that option is always "on".
To put everything at it's place I have to open a caja window (i.e: home).
That happens with and without compiz.

All that looks like some kind of conflict (I don't know where). I tried to compare my dconf keys with the ones from another account that doesn't have the problem using the command gsettings list-recursively , but I didn't find any difference that can produce this.

Does anybody has an idea how to resolve it?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

dconf dump > ~/dconf.txt

as each user will allow you to compare if you generate a good one from a user which is OK and a bad one from the user with issues.

Alternatively, you could remove the files you want, from the problematic user then delete the user as well as its home folder, then recreate the username. You will then get a vanilla profile.

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smurf (luca-dgh) said : 		#2

luca@pc-sala:~$ dconf dump > ~/dconf.txt
error: dir not specified

Usage:
  dconf dump DIR

Dump an entire subpath to stdout

Arguments:
  DIR A directory path (starting and ending with '/')

luca@pc-sala:~$

I tried to put my home dir, but doesn't work

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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