Monday, September 17, 2018

14.04 - Unity fails to start session [after removing gnome]

EDIT : I can login through tty but GUI session is failing to start.
Most answers on the net recommend installing gnome again. I don't want to do that if there is a more logical solution.


This is an old question and the reason for it is old as well. I installed GNOME, used it for a few weeks but didn't like the lag, so removed it using these commands:


sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Then tried to install ubuntu-desktop, which required ubuntu-session, which required some downgrading.


But the problem persists. How do I use Unity short of reinstalling gnome again? I really have very bad download speeds.

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