Removing Gnome from Ubuntu 14.04

[Tim]

On 29/04/14 17:31, Shenal Silva wrote:
> IMHO Ubuntu-Gnome is built for experiencing the GNOME Desktop Environment. Your best option would be to install vanilla Ubuntu with Unity as
> the default DE
^this!
however you can try your luck with the following commands
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
apt-get autoremove
dpkg-reconfigure lightdm (and select lightdm from the dconf prompt)

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> On 29 April 2014 11:52, Balázs Németh <nemethbzol at gmail.com <mailto:nemethbzol at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     My Nvidia notebook graphic card does not likes it that much. So I put the base Ubuntu desktop back. Anyways, the original question was
>     about removing the leftovers.
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>     Thanks.
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>     2014-04-29 8:18 GMT+02:00 Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs at gmail.com <mailto:aldomann.designs at gmail.com>>:
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>         Oh, god, why would you want to remove GNOME? Without it you basically have no desktop environment.
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>         Cheers,
>         Alfredo
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>         On 29 Apr 2014 08:15, "Balázs Németh" <nemethbzol at gmail.com <mailto:nemethbzol at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             Greetings, I would like to ask if anyone have met with this issue before.
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>             I tried to remove gnome under 14.04 with commands:
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>             sudo apt-get remove gnome
>             sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-gnome-desktop
>             sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell
>             sudo apt-get remove gnome-tweak-tool
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>             It succeeded basically, but a few leftovers stayed. Shutdown screen is still gnome, and top header menu is still the gnome one. 
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>             Any ideas how I can remove those as well?
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>             Thanks in advance,
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>             Németh Balázs
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