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I installed Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 the other day and have it completely configured perfectly for my needs with one exception. I really do not use nor want Tilda. When I tried to remove it today, I was met with this message:

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╚═▷ arm tilda [* I used Fish and 'arm' is aliased to 'apt remove', btw]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  tilda ubuntu-mate-core ubuntu-mate-desktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 433 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

I do not want to proceed for obvious reasons.

Can anyone give me a hand here? Am I stuck with Tilda? Is there another way to remove it?

muru
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Open System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Startup Applications (or run mate-session-properties) and there's actually "Tilda" there, just waiting to be disabled xD

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It surely gives that extra ~40MB of free RAM and unnoticably speeds-up boot!

If it's just a matter of keyboard shourtcuts, Tilda got nice preferences for everything.

GreggD
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ubuntu-mate-core and ubuntu-mate-desktop are both metapackages. They are lists of packages and not actual packages themselves.

Look at the output of apt show ubuntu-mate-core | grep Section and apt-show ubuntu-mate-desktop | grep Section. Both contain Section: universe/metapackages

You could next confirm that, other than tilda and the two metapackages, no other "real" package will be removed by running:

apt remove -s tilda

which will only simulate a removal because of -s.

You can read more about metapackages and the consequences of removing them here: What are the downsides of removing ubuntu-desktop metapackage?

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