Originally Posted by prahladyeri

A short story:

The governance under my dictatorship in the kingdom of Laptop was easy at the beginning. I hired a prime minister called Ubuntu who did the job well, but as trade started to develop with foreign lands and we had to establish new businesses like Eclipse, Android sdk, Firefox, php and a few others, our treasury-minister, Mr. Unity started to show the signs of a retard.

The bloke started having some "memory problems". He was an eccentric chap to begin with, liked to spend a lot of his mental energy on stuff like fancy clothes, hair style, skin ointments, etc. and just couldn't seem to take some time off for my businesses.

As a result, I just fired Unity and hired a new guy called GNOME in his place. GNOME seemed to do the job well at the beginning. Good thing was that he was not as eccentric as Unity and seemed to spare a lot of time and energy for looking after my trades.

However, this didn't last long as my business started expanding even more. I started receiving critical messages from dignitaries of other kingdoms for which I had to create a sub-system of pigeons and and other local-birds called thunderbird. I also started expanding my empire and started allocating some parts of my empire to separate missions called virtual machines. Again, GNOME seemed to be buckling under the pressure of increasing number of VMs day by day.

Finally, I decided to send GNOME on an early retirement and decided to hire someone professional this time. Fluxbox is the name of the chap, important thing is that he doesn't seem to come with a bloat of his own memory issues and likes to just mind his own business without coming in the way of my trades. The performance is quite satisfactory until now, and all residents of my kingdom are also happy with the management of Fluxbox. However, I have one small problem still.

Unity, with the help of some of his faithful soldiers has started a revolt against my kingdom. Finally, I had to use my ultimate weapon called apt-get purge to destroy Unity for good. However, some of his dissidents are still causing trouble in some parts of my kingdom. For example, in the menu province of Evince town as you can see in this image.

I just want to know whether there is any way to just find and kill all these last dissidents of Unity without causing any major panic in my kingdom? I would prefer not using my ultimate weapon called format which can finish off the dissidents, of course, but also cause a lot of civilian damage which I don't want.

Thanks,

An Emperor in Dilemma

Originally Posted by TB0ne

Since you've been here for four years now, and have been posting about Ubuntu for that long, did you try just looking this up??? The VERY FIRST HIT in Google for "how to remove unity from Ubuntu" is:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/65101...ty-now-and-how

..amazingly enough from Ubuntu's own forums, complete with steps and pictures.

Read the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature.

Originally Posted by prahladyeri

Already looked up the askubuntu thread, and I've already "apt-get remove"d unity, lightdm and ubuntu-desktop (Did you read my complete post?). This is about only the last "effect" of Unity which is seen in Evince, etc. which I don't know how to remove. That's why I've posted this.

Originally Posted by TB0ne

Tried to decipher your first post, yes...hard to understand exactly what you've done/tried by trying to read through the 'story'. You also say "as you can see in this image"...but didn't attach one, so we don't know what you mean by "menu province".

Since Evince is closely tied with ubuntu-desktop in Ubuntu, you could try "sudo apt-get remove evince" (and "evince-common"), then re-install evince.

Originally Posted by prahladyeri

Thanks for the help, everyone, I found an easier way to finish off the dissidents. I installed lxappearance and just changed the GTK theme to thwart the enemy once and for all! No Unity dissidents exist as of now.