On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 18:26, > Bao Cao wrote: > > Due to an accident, my backgound image (Genome) is not > > visuable, now it is deep blue, and all those icons, > > such as XXX'home, etc, are all gone too. There is no > > right-click on the screen, either. Can anybody please > > show me how to get them back? Thanks! > I had this same problem a few hours ago, amazingly. This is what I did to fix Hit CTL-ALT-F1 to go to the first console Login as root Type 'telinit 3' at the prompt to get to run level 3 and stop X CD into /tmp and delete all of the xses-$username files Type telinit 5 to get back to run level 5 and start X Viola HTH