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On Raspbian, I installed a different desktop environment and selected the wrong one in the terminal and when I rebooted, I went to the MATE desktop environment even though it's not installed.

I tried to right-click for the submenu or reach the terminal, but can't access anything. It's just the background and the movable mouse cursor.

What can I do to fix this?

No icons, text, menus or anything

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  • Can you ssh in to the pi from another machine and run sudo raspi-config and select command line to get back to a terminal session? If not enabled - power off, pull the card add a file ssh to the /boot partition and reboot (Pi normally checks every time for this file thank goodness) Does ctl-alt-T work to give you a terminal? Try adding ` init=/bin/sh` to end of cmdline.txt (note leading space) keep on one line - do on another machine. Other machine can be the same Pi with a different SD running and original in an USB SD adapter.
    – user115418
    Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 2:08
  • "What can I do to fix this?" What most of the experienced users would do restore from your BACKUP - indeed I wouldn't dream of performing such a change without a fresh backup. It is not impossible for an expert to rescue a failure but this is usually more effort and risker than a fresh start.
    – Milliways
    Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 5:35

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I fixed my problem. I pressed [ctrl]+[alt]+[f1] to get to the command line, changed the environment code and rebooted. Solved! :D

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