Installed Mate on Lubuntu; would like to disable everything else

Changes · 11-23-2013, 08:33 PM

I installed Lubuntu on a laptop because of widely circulating rumors that it ran better on it than Ubuntu - figured I had nothing to lose as I had to install Mate on it anyway. So I did, and I got it to login in Mate, but every now and then the default environment switches back to LXDE, on its own as far as I can determine. This is not a problem for me because two clicks get it running Mate again, but the user who's getting it not quite so computer-literate and having to explain to them how to switch it back would get old fast.

Is there any way to force it to always run Mate? Even perhaps disabling LXDE altogether in some way that wouldn't require its uninstall and therefore breakage of the entire system?

andrewthomas · 11-23-2013, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Changes

I installed Lubuntu on a laptop because of widely circulating rumors that it ran better on it than Ubuntu - figured I had nothing to lose as I had to install Mate on it anyway. So I did, and I got it to login in Mate, but every now and then the default environment switches back to LXDE, on its own as far as I can determine. This is not a problem for me because two clicks get it running Mate again, but the user who's getting it not quite so computer-literate and having to explain to them how to switch it back would get old fast.

Is there any way to force it to always run Mate? Even perhaps disabling LXDE altogether in some way that wouldn't require its uninstall and therefore breakage of the entire system?

just remove the lubuntu-desktop meta-package

snowday · 11-24-2013, 10:30 AM

Here is the command to completely remove lubuntu/lxde and give you a bare-bones Ubuntu 13.04 minimal system. Then you can install MATE and your favorite apps to get a completely custom system.

Code:

sudo apt-get remove abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview ace-of-penguins audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data blueman chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg elementary-icon-theme ffmpegthumbnailer fonts-lyx galculator gdebi gdebi-core gecko-mediaplayer giblib1 gksu gnome-desktop-data gnome-icon-theme-full gnome-mplayer gnome-system-tools gnome-time-admin gnumeric gnumeric-common gnumeric-doc gpicview gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf guvcview hardinfo indicator-application-gtk2 leafpad libaacs0 libabiword-2.9 libass4 libaudclient2 libaudcore1 libavcodec53 libavformat53 libavutil51 libbinio1ldbl libbluray1 libbs2b0 libcddb2 libcolamd2.7.1 libcompfaceg1 libcue1 libdca0 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libdiscid0 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libenca0 libept1.4.12 libexo-1-0 libexo-common libexo-helpers libfaad2 libffmpegthumbnailer4 libfluidsynth1 libfm-data libfm-gtk-bin libfm-gtk-data libfm-gtk3 libfm3 libgda-5.0-4 libgda-5.0-common libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgksu2-0 libglade2-0 libgmlib1 libgmtk1 libgmtk1-data libgoffice-0.10-10 libgoffice-0.10-10-common libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgsm1 libgtkmathview0c2a libgtkspell0 libguess1 libid3tag0 libimlib2 libjpeg-progs libjpeg-turbo-progs libjs-jquery liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0 libmenu-cache2 libmms0 libmodplug1 libmowgli2 libmp3lame0 libmpg123-0 libmusicbrainz3-6 libnet-dbus-perl libobrender27 libobt0 libonig2 liboobs-1-5 libopts25 libots0 libpisock9 libpostproc52 librarian0 libresid-builder0c2a libschroedinger-1.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libsidplay2 libswscale2 libtidy-0.99-0 libtie-ixhash-perl libts-0.0-0 libuniconf4.6 libva1 libvdpau1 libvte-common libvte9 libwebcam0 libwv-1.2-4 libwvstreams4.6-base libwvstreams4.6-extras libxfce4ui-1-0 libxfce4util-bin libxfce4util-common libxfce4util6 libxfconf-0-2 libxml-parser-perl libxml-twig-perl libxml-xpath-perl libxvidcore4 lightdm-gtk-greeter link-grammar-dictionaries-en lm-sensors lp-solve lubuntu-artwork lubuntu-artwork-13-04 lubuntu-core lubuntu-default-session lubuntu-default-settings lubuntu-desktop lubuntu-icon-theme lubuntu-lxpanel-icons lubuntu-software-center lxappearance lxappearance-obconf lxinput lxkeymap lxlauncher lxmenu-data lxpanel lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin lxrandr lxsession lxsession-data lxsession-edit lxshortcut lxtask lxterminal mplayer2 mtpaint ntp obconf openbox openbox-themes pcmanfm pidgin pidgin-data pidgin-libnotify pidgin-microblog plymouth-theme-lubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-lubuntu-text python-pysqlite2 python-support python-xklavier rarian-compat scrot sylpheed sylpheed-doc sylpheed-i18n sylpheed-plugins synaptic system-tools-backends transmission tsconf uvcdynctrl uvcdynctrl-data wvdial xfburn xfce-keyboard-shortcuts xfce4-notifyd xfce4-power-manager xfce4-power-manager-data xfconf xfonts-100dpi xpad xscreensaver xscreensaver-data

If you are not using 13.04 then see here for variations on this command for other releases: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/pureubuntu