Removing Gnome from Ubuntu 14.04

[Shenal Silva]

My friend you are on the wrong mailing list :-)
Anyway to help you with the left over try running apt-get purge instead of
apt-get remove
On 29 Apr 2014 21:22, "Balázs Németh" <nemethbzol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, thanks for the answers, seems we had a little misunderstanding. So, I
> installed the standard ubuntu desktop, downloaded from
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop (not the Ubuntu GNOME...)
>
> After I did:
> sudo apt-get install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop
>
> Than my nvdidia card said no, thankyou, and I tries dot remove it with
> commands:
> 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
>
> Hovever, as I mentioned, a few leftovers stayed, so I've got now a funny
> mixed desktop. I hope it is clearer now what is my issue. Any help
> appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Balazs Nemeth
>
>
>
>
> 2014-04-29 13:22 GMT+02:00 Steve Ovens <steve_ovens at linux.com>:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 29/04/14 16:22, Balázs Németh wrote:
>>> > 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.
>>> gnome-shell runs great on the nvidia blob here, btw! No idea about
>>> nouveau though, it refuses to light up my extra monitors so I don't use it!
>>>
>>
>> ^^^ This. I have never had a problem with the binary blobs and nvidia.
>> Its pretty much all I use
>>
>>
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 2014-04-29 8:18 GMT+02:00 Alfredo Hernández <
>>> aldomann.designs at gmail.com <mailto:aldomann.designs at gmail.com>>:
>>> >
>>> >     Oh, god, why would you want to remove GNOME? Without it you
>>> basically have no desktop environment.
>>> >
>>> >     Cheers,
>>> >     Alfredo
>>> >
>>> >     On 29 Apr 2014 08:15, "Balázs Németh" <nemethbzol at gmail.com<mailto:
>>> nemethbzol at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >         Greetings, I would like to ask if anyone have met with this
>>> issue before.
>>> >
>>> >         I tried to remove gnome under 14.04 with commands:
>>> >
>>> >         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
>>> >
>>> >         It succeeded basically, but a few leftovers stayed. Shutdown
>>> screen is still gnome, and top header menu is still the gnome one.
>>> >
>>> >         Any ideas how I can remove those as well?
>>> >
>>> >         Thanks in advance,
>>> >         --
>>> >         Németh Balázs
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