[![desktop unity messed up](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNdsh.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNdsh.jpg)

So I was messing with installing Gnome and KDE desktop environments, and ended up deciding not to. When I was finished, I logged out. Upon opening my laptop again, there were several problems.

**Problems**: The greeter / login screen had no area where the password that I had typed would show up. I still was able to type in my password and login to my computer, where I found that all my icons were several times larger than they were supposed to be. And on top of this, the top panel in Unity had gone from being the opaque gray I was comfortable with to a translucent.

I do not know if this problem has to do with compiz, lightdm, unity, or something else.