I am running Linux 14.04 with Gnome.
My Laptop just spontaneously lost all ability to interact with gnome - no toolbar at the top, no icons on the left, work space switching does not work, and no keyboard shortcuts work, except for the only custom keyboard shortcut I have for gnome-system-monitor
. However, the mouse and keyboard still work, and I can interact and open a text file that I happen to have on my desktop.
I had a terminal open, and restarted via it, but when my laptop restarted, it did not start up again. Subsequent restarts (via the power button) did nothing.
As I said, I am able to get the system monitor working, and here are some notable processes:
-My ram usage is much lower than usual after restarting
-compiz, nautilus and gnome-session are running
The Only interaction that works, apart from being able to open the system monitor, is Ctrl-Alt-F1
.
Update
My Fix is in the answers
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