Desktop is broken on linux

[SpangB4b]

Alright so, I was playing around with php and stuff using local by flywheel and atom with firefox open obviously, I was using about 1.5 gb of ram while doing this stuff (I had some other stuff open), I decided to change my desktop background to something else I downloaded earlier, next thing you know, the desktop literally stops working and the settings for desktop aren't working, I can change anything in the settings except the desktop settings, I'm using lubuntu latest version, tried killing all processes and then restarting with init 1; init 3 but it didn't work. Sooooo, any ideas?

[LogicalDrm]

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On 5/16/2020 at 7:56 AM, SpangB4b said:

Alright so, I was playing around with php and stuff using local by flywheel and atom with firefox open obviously, I was using about 1.5 gb of ram while doing this stuff (I had some other stuff open), I decided to change my desktop background to something else I downloaded earlier, next thing you know, the desktop literally stops working and the settings for desktop aren't working, I can change anything in the settings except the desktop settings, I'm using lubuntu latest version, tried killing all processes and then restarting with init 1; init 3 but it didn't work. Sooooo, any ideas?

Try deleting the LXDE config files. Or try this. Go into a TTY by using Ctrl + Alt + F2, or F3, ....., F12 (it is just trial and error until you reach a terminal login prompt). From there run

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rm -rf ~/.config/lx*

It should delete your lxde config files, I believe. This might reset your DE and it might start to work again.