[SOLVED]Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

[TomTomTom]

Hi guys,

here's my problem, which I haven't been able to find in this forum:

--> mainly Windows user

--> installed Kubuntu Oneiric --> yay!

--> installed AWN (am used to it from UDE pre-Unity) using the muon program manager (that might have been a bit simplistic...)

--> restart

--> KDE gone, Unity pasted all over the place

--> naively done the following:

• uninstalled all unity-related packages
• restarted
• ended up with blue unity-based desktop background. can access folders, that's about it. Alt+F2 doesn't twitch, nor does anything else I know.

--> I have since learned that logging off and on again, choosing the kde session should circumvent the problem. How do I do this, starting in a crippled unity?

Thanks in advance,

Tom TomTom

[oshunluvr]

Re: Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

There should be a "Session Type" option when you log-in assuming there's more than one desktop manager available. If you're still using the default KDM startup theme, it's a little blue down arrow lower left corner of the log in window. Once you get logged in, KDE should be the default.

[TomTomTom]

Re: Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately, I am automatically logged in and dumped right into Unity during boot-up, without a log-in screen in sight. I forgot to mention that, didn't I...

It's really just Kubuntu splash screen...loading...loading... Unity.

Are there any global key combinations for logging off or variables that I can use to load the KDE session manually? Like an option to work around the auto-login?

I found that ctrl-alt-f1 will open a terminal in my leftover Unity. How could I proceed from there?

Thanks again,
Tom TomTom

[oshunluvr]

Re: Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

Assuming you're still using KDM, open a terminal and type

kdesudo kate /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc

Near the bottom of the file you should see AutoLoginEnable=true - change it to =false and re-login.

[TomTomTom]

Re: Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

@oshunluvr:
Thanks,
but this makes my machine say that "kdesudo cannot connect to the xserver".

My terminal starts as follows:

-----------------------------------------------

Ubuntu 11.10 Tom tty1

Tom login: tom
Password: xxxx
Last login: Sun Dec (and so on...)
Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64)

*Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com

tom@Tom:~$

Where to now?

Thanks,
Tom

[vinnywright]

Re: Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

@oshunluvr was assumeing you could open a terminal from a desktop environment ..........you wont get any GUI apps to run from a tty (ctrl>alt>F1).

you can try to reinstall the Kubuntu desktop package and see if that gets you back.

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

VINNY

[woodsmoke]

Re: Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

Just as an "oddment" of information, when I did the manual install of Kubuntu desktop over Oneric Unity, upon shutdown I would see a "flash" of the Unity screen.

woodsmoke

[TomTomTom]

Re: Avant Window Manager infected me with Unity...help!

@VINNY:

That did it!

Thank you, you just saved my day!

Cheers,
Tom