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After purging lightdm and installing lxdm, cinnamon disappeared, major controls gone
After my light display manager died, I tried numerous fixes; ultimately purging lightdm, removing leftovers (autoremove), then installing a different dm (lxdm).
Initially, it didn't work because cinnamon was apparently completely gone, so I had to reinstall cinnamon, then got my desktop back minus many critical programs. For instance, I cannot gain access to terminal, have no program manager, firefox is missing, and so on.
So it seems I finally resolved one problem but now have several new problems. Do I need to do an update at this point? Do I need to purge then reinstall other things, like xorg, greeters, gnome? As usual, I am clueless about the causes and how to proceed.
NOTE: I am a bonified newbie and do not understand Linux lingo (terminology), and haven't a clue about how Linux works. HELP! Thanks.
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