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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.

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  • Screenshots, please.
    – user423626
    Jul 1, 2016 at 16:10
  • Can you post the image? That would be helpful to know what are you getting. Jul 1, 2016 at 16:11
  • I've added one. Jul 1, 2016 at 16:26
  • Can you output your error log? Do you have the correct graphics card driver installed? Can you drag the terminal window down further? Or at least shrink the width? The title bar could be out of view and you aren't seeing the output. What happens when you type and hit enter in the box? Does it do anything?
    – Jeremy
    Jul 1, 2016 at 16:29
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    Ok, chances are you don't have the correct graphics card installed. What is the make and model of your computer? I have a GTX750Ti and before I installed the correct driver it says it's an Intel in the Details due to the driver it's using. So we need to identify your graphics card to install the correct driver. Run : lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA -A 12 and update your question to show the output.
    – Jeremy
    Jul 1, 2016 at 17:19

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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.

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