Installed Gnome Shell desktop environment on Ubuntu 14.04 but its not working?

Question

I had installed the gnome shell desktop environment on my Ubuntu 14.04 but its not working.

I had been told that after installing it; I would be getting options at the log in time -'asking me' which environments I would like to use. But nothing of that sort had happened. I am still stuck up with my unity environment.

I had used this command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Solution

Use this commands (minimum installation):

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
sudo apt-get install gnome-session

or simply this (normal installation):

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop

On login screen click in (Ubuntu) logo next to username field (in GDM - "gears" icon next to 'Log In'/'Sign In' button) - it will show all available environments.

Comments

[j0hn]

hm.. thats strange. take a look here: askubuntu.com/questions/456766/… it explains how to change the default xsession for lightdm

[amir]

Just read my question. I had already done these. Okay. But there is no such icon next to my Login/Sign Button. I had already said this.

[Damian]

You said that You installed only gnome-shell package. Without gnome-session installed, the icon in login screen should not appear...