On 20 November 2011 20:05, Pete <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > > I was playing around trying to install gnome 3 onto my Ubuntu 11.04 system, > this was done via synaptic, since then I have been given the choice of > 'gnome classic, KDE (plasma workspace), Arios (my original system based on > Ubuntu), recovery console, unity 2d, user defined session' at login but none > of them are my original desktop session and most give the error 'unable to > load session' with the option to logout. > > I have since got the KDE desktop working to write this post. > > I have 'completely removed' gnome 3 in synaptic but it only removed 1 > package not the 139 it installed when I installed it! > > My question(s) are > > 1/ most important how do I recover my original desktop session? > 2/ why did it install the KDE desktop environment without me even trying? > 3/ is there a way of listing the packages installed on a certain date/time > to ensure I can manually remove them with the hope of restoring my system to > it's previous state? > > thanks in advance (and no I will not be trying to install extra desktops on > an existing system again, I will dual boot in future!!)
You shouldn't have done that on 11.04. GNOME 3 breaks Unity in 11.04 - this is lavishly documented and when you added the PPA you have been presented with multiple warnings which you have chosen to ignore or skip. I suggest you upgrade to 11.10. This is perfectly doable from the command-line. It will get you Unity back and working /and/ GNOME 3 if you wish. Both at once, which 11.04 cannot do. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
