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I posted this question here

http://bit.ly/HTNTye

please help, you can answer here or there it does not matter, i thought that someone like rahmu could answer coz he's a moderator there, and others of course lol
had the same thing with Ubuntu a month ago.. all you can do is reinstall
ibxoful wrotehad the same thing with Ubuntu a month ago.. all you can do is reinstall
I wont reinstall, there's got to be another way, i have many software installed on my pc, so many, i can't reinstall, i'll have to reinstall everything... not an opton
One thing you can do is take your Xorg.0.log (usually located at /var/log/Xorg.0.log) and pastebin it, maybe that might give a hint as to what the problem is. If you see lines with (EE) or (WW) in there, those are errors and warnings.

You don't need to reinstall anything. Not yet at least.
I checked the logs of Xorg, I cannot find anything suspicious (if only some default Nvidia module, don't think this is it).

In 99% of the cases, when something like this happen, try to think of the last thing you did before it happened. When was the last time you entered "sudo" before it happened?
it's hard for me to know what is the last sudo, i guess it is when i downloaded nautilus actions and nautilus extra, didn't work coz there was a bug, removed them and then removed nautilus that comes by default, by mistake, then reinstalled it but maybe that caused the problem, i installed kivy like this
$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-pygame python-opengl \
  python-gst0.10 python-enchant gstreamer0.10-plugins-good cython python-dev \
  build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev
$ sudo easy_install kivy
but i guess that was on Wednesday not Thursday