Please Help

I posted this on /g/:
Does someone know what's happening?

Hello /g/ it's my first time on here.
I'm having a bit of a problem right now.
Well.
I'll just state the details.

My taskbar isn't visible.
I can't see any of my desktop icons on the screen.

The only thing I can see is my wallpaper.
If I restart my laptop it would be back to normal, but this usually happens after the taskbar goes white and blocky ( kind of like the old windows thing.)

It's been bugging me for a while.
Also I'm only able to access the web right now because Avast is open and I clicked Support then Check FAQ.

The browser closes sometimes.
Please help.
Feel free to ask questions.

>>18
It still, disappointingly, undersells its document styling system,
I hate this. If there's one thing I like about the newer Microsoft Office apps, it's that they have an obvious focus on proper stylesheets, something most IT drones didn't even know about before.

>>19
I like how you reject a pretty snazzy GUI app in favor of an ncurses one, then you support a Qt application over a GTK+ one. Try zathura from pwmt.org. It's based on MuPDF/Poppler and uses vi-style keyboard control for everything (though you can use a mouse too).
You also might want to check out AbiWord. It's fairly decent if you're not doing anything too tasking.