#Black screen after log in, every youtube tutorial did not work

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spice granite
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So you get to the login screen ok?

languid frigate
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^

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see also #1429152383018991697 message even if not using nvidia card. the part for safeboot.

rapid jay
rapid jay
spice granite
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When and how did it start?

rapid jay
# spice granite When and how did it start?

Today, I wanted to add an applet and suddenly my laptop froze except for the mouse cursor... I then manually shut it down and restarted it. Now, after logging in, I always get a black screen with the mouse cursor on it.

spice granite
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Try logging in cinnamon on wayland, if you get to the desktop, remove the applet you added and logout, login back to regular cinnamon (on xorg)

rapid jay
spice granite
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also try cinnamon software rendering

rapid jay
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Whats that?

spice granite
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click on the mountain looking icon next to password field

rapid jay
languid frigate
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you get to choose a desktop.

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in the case of Cinnamon, u get the default X11 graphics platform, the experimental Wayland one, or CPU-rendered graphics (software mode)

rapid jay
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So should i use the cinnamon Software rendering or wayland?

languid frigate
rapid jay
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I'm still stuck on the black screen

languid frigate
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what applet did u install?

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ctrl-alt-backspace

rapid jay
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I think it was a cpu display or smt

languid frigate
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in login manager (pretty screen) press ctrl-alt-F2 (or F3-F6) and log in

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password entry is invisible

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then run a ls -la

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find the cinnamon folder. google where the applets are. cd to that location

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then rm it (the offensive one only)

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once it's rm'd (removed) ls again to be sure

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then ctrl-alt-F7 back to graphics mode

rapid jay
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It says my login is incorrect even though it's actually correct.

languid frigate
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make sure username is all lowercase

rapid jay
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Nope, it still says that my log in is incorrect

rapid jay
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I dont know what to do anymore, nothing worked

languid frigate
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boot the Mint Live USB to its desktop. Make on another computer if you foolishly didn't keep it. Then run Timeshift from there and restore to a known-working snapshot - if you had made one.