How to change unity desktop to gnome-shell

Unity desktop on Ubuntu 12.04

Hi friends of Ubunlog, in this basic tutorial I am going to teach you how to change the desktop that comes by default in the latest versions of Ubuntu, which is none other than him unity desk.

Well in theory we will not change anything if not we will install the new and revamped gnome-shell desktop and then we will make it the default desktop when logging in. 

We are going to do all this from the terminal itself and with some simple instructions, so let's start with installing gnome-shell:

Installing gnome-shell

The first of all will be to open a new terminal and type the following:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

installing gnome-shell

This will download from Ubuntu repositories the gnome-shell desktop and install it on our Ubuntu.

With this, it would no longer be necessary to do anything else, since we would have installed the gnome-shell desktop, the only thing that to access it you have to do it rebooting the system and clicking on the wheel that appears in the login, right on the screen where we enter our password:

Login with desktop options

Clicking on the option gnome, the impressive and functional desktop of gnome-shell:

Gnome 3 desk

Setting gnome-shell as default desktop

If you want gnome-shell be the default desktop When logging into Ubuntu, you just have to open a new terminal and type the following command:

sudo / usr / lib / lightdm / lightdm-set-defaults -s gnome-shell

gnome 3 by default

With this every time we log into our operating system, it will be the new desktop of gnome-shell the one that will start by default, if you want to put default the desk of Unity You should only type the following line in a new terminal:

sudo / usr / lib / lightdm / lightdm-set-defaults -s ubuntu

By default unity

With this we will have correctly installed gnome-shell, the most spectacular desktop, in my personal opinion, for our distro Favorite Linux.

More information - Keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu 12.04


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  1.   wop said

    I have stopped reading after the headline. If not even the author can distinguish between gnome3, unity and gnome-shell ...

    1.    Handcrafted said

       Instead of exposing someone else, why don't you contribute your knowledge so that we can all learn?

  2.   iustus said

    a wop: I have this installed and it's fine. I am a supporter of classic writings and we are not overloaded with icons such as the supermarket scale that shows you the banana key ...  
    Gnome Classic, MATE, Cinnamon, TazorQT welcome even the terminal itself. 
    KDE 4.9 is also very good. Of course, I'm not looking for the banana ... 

    1.    Francisco Ruiz said

      I love the Cairo-Dock.
      Ahh, very good the simile of the supermarket scale, yes sir hahaha

  3.   alexo said

    I love Unity.

  4.   I'm De Silva said

    Ask noob if I did this and I did not like which is the unity desktop I do not know how to return it ... hehe: p thanks

    1.    Francis J. said

      Hi, I don't know if you mean to restore the default option. If so, just run, as it says in the article, sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s ubuntu

  5.   Emmanuel said

    Excuse me, and if I want to default to the classic, is it the same process? Thanks!!! Pd, excellent post !!!

  6.   amcabrera said

    bro a question, how can I uninstall the openbox configuration manager from ubuntu

  7.   Nippur said

    Hello, when trying to install gnome-shell I get this
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    gnome-shell: Depends: gir1.2-mutter-3.0 (> = 3.12.1) but it won't install
    Depends: libmutter0d (> = 3.12) but it won't install
    Depends: libmutter0d (<3.13) but it won't install
    E: Problems could not be corrected, you have retained broken packages.

    What I do?