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Problem: After typing in my credentials I am greeted by a black screen with a cursor. My desktop environment does not load. How can I resolve this issue and get my desktop environment to load?

System: Ubuntu 20.04; Gnome 3.36.4; GDM; XOrg; No Nvidia Graphics.

Details: Right before this happened I enabled fractional scaling and set it to 125%. Then I rebooted which is when the problem occurred for the first time. I can log in to ubuntu on wayland. So I suspect that the problem is with XOrg.

What I've tried

  • Fixing potentially unsuccessful update following the first answer to this question.
  • Checked startup jobs following this blog entry.
  • Reinstalled gdm3 following the system76 guide.
PavelNikov
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I was finally able to solve it. The problem was fractional scaling.

Solution: I logged into a wayland session and set fractional scaling back to 100%.

Procedure: Logged into a wayland session. Went to Settings > Displays > Set the fractional scaling back to 100% and disabled fractional scaling. Then I did a reboot and tried logging into an XOrg session which worked again.

PavelNikov
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