How to revert unity and remove gnome desktop?

Question

I just installed gnome in Ubuntu 13.10 following this article at www.omgubuntu.co.uk

After reboot , weird things started happening :

• Gnome desktop always crashes (hang and unusable)
• no mouse cursor in unity and login window
• Mouse scrool act opposite
• wallpaper is now gone ! Even applying new pic as wallpaper didn't solve
• horrible graphics

I am new to Ubuntu and now I don't know how to revert old unity and remove gnome !

How can I solve this?

Answer as simple as you can .

Solution

If GUI is troubling you, login through CLI(Ctrl+Alt+F1)

Check if ppa-purge package is installed or not.

Run

dpkg -l | grep ppa-purge

If it returns the value, ppa-purge is installed. If not, install it as follows;

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

After that run the following commands;

sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Reboot system and login through Unity.

Comments

[Admin]

Try weather you can select Unity at loggin. Click on the huge dot or the ubuntu logo in front of your username. ( In the screen you enter password at login). It will list if it is still available. see.

[David parker]

i m able to login in unity but unity seems broken ! same problem arises again ! no cursor , dark wallpaper , and seems like hang program in windows xp ! ;(

[Admin]

Follow the steps in the artcle to remove that ppa and remove gnome. copy down the steps in a paper. If you can open the terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T you can do it. Otherwise Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 and get the command prompt.

[Luís de Sousa]

I have the same problem with my background [1], but I don't have GNome installed. You might be dealing with something more serious. [1] askubuntu.com/questions/385594/…

[David parker]

nth happens ! here's what i got 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.