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  1. Bug #963633
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 963633

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Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton) wrote : Re: Unity 5.8: Entire screen stays solid black except the mouse cursor when logged into Unity 3D, but can still "use" the desktop

Just ran into a similar issue on my laptop, which is a Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960 running Intel graphics. In that case, I at least got a wallpaper and mouse cursor, but still no visible windows until I did a unity --replace. That brought up a visible terminal window without decorations and stuck in the upper-left corner, and produced a crash (Bug #932125). Since I couldn't get past Firefox back to my terminal, I did a Ctrl+Alt+F1, logged into a tty and ran unity --reset there, which also fixed the issue on my laptop.

From what I've seen on my machines and from what I've heard in IRC, this issue is graphics-independent.