# Blue background desktop with no icon and no apps/windows working

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Tags:** rocky-linux-9\
**Created:** [November 12, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/blue-background-desktop-with-no-icon-and-no-apps-windows-working/11829 "2023-11-12T06:11:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![imtss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4da419/32.png) [@imtss](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/imtss)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/blue-background-desktop-with-no-icon-and-no-apps-windows-working/11829/1 "2023-11-12T06:11:26Z")

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When I login to gdm, I found that my desktop environment doesn’t work at all: no icons on the menu and toolbar. I also can’t open any apps, even Settings and Terminal.

 ![ss_3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/1/1a2f1103b06d4e99e94bd3b798f3a75f01fc467b.jpeg)

I have re-installed GNOME and tried installing KDE: didn’t solve the issue.

I have tried searching this issue and found the same problem with Ubuntu desktop which have been solved by the command ‘dpkg --configure -a’

[Fix Blue Screen , No icons , No folder opening in Linux ubuntu 20.04 LTS after login - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJGBFO3-l3Q)

NOTE:  
Before I met this issue, I tried installing .deb package of Cisco Packet Tracer using alien and this setup file by following the instructions I found on the internet.  
[packettracer-rpm-based/setup.sh at main · thiagoojack/packettracer-rpm-based · GitHub](https://github.com/thiagoojack/packettracer-rpm-based/blob/main/setup.sh)

I wonder if this issue happens because I touched xdg-desktop-menu, libdouble-conversion.so, gtk-update-icon-cache, mime.

Do you know how to solve this issue/recover my desktop to make it work again?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/blue-background-desktop-with-no-icon-and-no-apps-windows-working/11829/2 "2024-01-11T06:11:45Z")

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Closed on January 11, 2024, 6:11am UTC

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