How do i switch to Unity from Xmonad

Question

Im a real noob with computers and installed accidentally Xmonad, without knowning that it was code-based. How can i switch back to unity?

crtl + alt + t didnt worked. It did nothing, showed a bunch of numbers and codes and disappeared. I did a bunch of times tho. And than once it opened GRUB. Didnt know what to do there so i turned of. crtl + alt + f1 made me enter and do the login. Then i wrote what you said and this appeared: WARNING, no display variable set, setting it to: ... didnt tried the other imperfect way. Why is imperfect, by the way? — disk, Aug 06 '14 at 23:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Two imperfect ways to do this:

(Assuming Unity is still installed)

or

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Aug 06 '14 at 22:12

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mchid · Answer 2 · 2014-08-07T07:11:49.860

Use CTRL + ALT + F1 like you did before and login with your username and password.

Then type this:

sudo apt-get purge xmonad && sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

When that's said and done with, you can start a regular xsession with this command:

sudo service lightdm start

or

sudo service lightdm restart

To bypass the login screen and go directly into your default desktop type:

startx

To see if there are any other related packages still installed you can type this command:

dpkg -l | grep xmonad

No output = no packages are installed.

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