First time poster here - all the problems so far I have been able to solve myself with a little help from google and these forums. However, I did not find a solution for my current problem so I am posting here. If this has already been solved, than please excuse my search skills (or lack of them).
I was trying to set-up a usb bluetooth adapter in Mint 14 (cinnamon, 64-bit) but as soon as I click a discovered device, the add device window disappears. I have tried installing blueman via the software manager, but this did not work as well. I then removed gnome-bluetooth with the software manager and restarted the computer. When I logged back in (login screen works as usual), I was welcomed to a black desktop with only the pointer. I have tried logging into a GNOME session, but there was a black bar on the left side of the screen (1/5th of the width), the mouse was not working properly (I could not right-click, drag the windows around, etc.) and I could not type in certain fields (terminal for example, but chromium works as usual). This is also the case with XFCE session (XFCE4 installed via the software manager). The log-in screen works as it's supposed to, but as soon as I enter into a desktop manager, things go wrong. I can see the cursor at the black bar (I can move my mouse over it) and click on the icons that are below (they are cut-off by the bar and I can see that they are selected when I click on where they are supposed to be under the black bar). Also, Cairo dock appears when I move the cursor to the left edge of the screen (as it's supposed to) on top of the black bar.
I have tried reinstalling the gnome-bluetooth but this did not help. I have also tried removing and cinnamon and reinstalling to no avail. I believe some display config is bad, but I do not see how removing a bluetooth program could have changed this... I have nvidia drivers, if that helps. Also, the virtual machines work fine, i.e. the whole screen is usable.
I would really appreciate any help. Thank you in advance and sorry for the long post.
As suggested in the "How to get help", here is the output of
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inxi -FxzConsole: tty 1 Distro: Linux Mint 14 Nadia
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8Z77-V LE PLUS version: Rev X.0x Bios: American Megatrends version: 0901 date: 02/25/2013
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-3770K CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 28082.3
Clock Speeds: 1: 1600.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz 3: 1600.00 MHz 4: 1600.00 MHz 5: 1600.00 MHz 6: 1600.00 MHz 7: 1600.00 MHz 8: 1600.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA Device 11c6 bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.org: 1.13.0 driver: nvidia tty size: 80x25 Advanced Data: N/A out of X
Audio: Card-1: NVIDIA Device 0e0b driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.25
Card-2: Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1128.2GB (53.0% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_840 size: 128.0GB
2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID: / size: 38G used: 11G (29%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 80G used: 62G (82%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 16.38GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 271 Uptime: 2:24 Memory: 3128.6/15997.5MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.7.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
