I'm running Ubuntu 15.10 on a Lenovo Ideapad, and whenever I try to open a terminal window, only a black box appears, and the menus have thick black borders and the nofification box is also black.
1 Answer
This is due to an incorrect graphics driver.
First run:
lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA -A 12
To see what type of graphics card you actually have.
Since you have an Intel Graphics card and on 15.10, install the updated driver using this ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
If all goes well, and if glxinfo
is installed, typing in a shell:
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
will print the driver type and version with the PPA custom string.
Do a reboot and this should solve your issue.
lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA -A 12
and update your question to show the output.