Unity on Ubuntu 11.10 new install, i have no desktop icons
Brand new to Ubuntu, very limited computing experience, please address responses accordingly.
Installed Ubuntu (11.10) for the first time this evening and can login but am presented with an almost entirely white desktop. I have a blank 2cm grey strip down the left-hand side of the screen (no icons or wording) and a narrow grey strip at the top with a menu in the top-right. I can access drop-down menus from here.
In the drop-down menus the only thing that has any effect is to click on Startup Applications... which reproduces those words at the top-left of the screen. When I move the cursor over the grey strip on the left after this I get wording (Dash home, Home Folder, Firefox Web Browser, etc), but still no icons. I can right-click on these to get a further menu but selecting anything from here also has no effect.
Install appeared to go fine as far as I could tell. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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