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IMHO, Unity is just as productive and functional as Gnome Shell, and since for me, Gnome Shell looks a lot more stylish, I would like to replace Unity in Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Shell.

EDIT: Without a further thought, I opened the Ubuntu Software Center > searched "Gnome Shell" and installed it. And since I use auto-login, Ubuntu logs-me-into Unity.

To prevent that...

  • I want to uninstall Unity completely. How do I do that?

  • After doing the above, Gnome Shell loads by default right?

jokerdino
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Log out.

Then, in the lightdm greeter click on the gear symbol and click on "Gnome". This will load the gnome-shell desktop.

To set gnome-shell as default, open a terminal and type

sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s gnome-shell
martin
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It's been done. See this distro here: http://ubuntu-gs-remix.sourceforge.net/p/home/ I'm using it and it works great! Still I'm curious and a little worried about the ominous warnings mentioned above related to using Gnome 3 without Unity. Hence I think I will install vanilla 12.04 LTS instead and add the Gnome 3 shell.

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