Today I installed Cinnamon 1.4 but when I log in to it I can't see any panels, just my background image. Can you tell me how to log in to Unity using the terminal and how to remove Cinnamon?
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2How did you install it? – ændrük May 26 '12 at 17:09
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installed it using terinal, addded PPA ant then typed: sudo apt-get install cinnamon. – Alen May 26 '12 at 17:40
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Isn't this question is out of the scope of askubuntu? – Ravi May 27 '12 at 11:10
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From your post on Ubuntu Forums
Boot into Recovery mode and type this for the var/apt/cache error:
sudo mount -n -o remount /
Then disable auto login from virtual console by doing the following
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Some of the lines should look like this
[SeatDefaults]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=username
autologin-user-timeout=0
autologin-session=lightdm-autologin
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=ubuntu
Just put a # before all lines starting with autologin
Then whenever you boot into Ubuntu just change the login to unity from the lightdm's login screen options
Also you might want to remove Cinnamon
Then type in the terminal
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove cinnamon
Hope that helps.
Ashu
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it says that it can't access apt. is there any way to login to Unity from root and then I can fix the rest – Alen May 26 '12 at 17:41
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@Alen you can login into
recovery modeduring boot and then use the command. i have no idea how to login into unity. – Ashu May 26 '12 at 17:43 -
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when booting your screen should look like this then select the recovery mode from the list – Ashu May 26 '12 at 18:09
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I fixed this:
Alen
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Though the answer may theoretically correct, It is preferable to put the necessary details here, and put the link for reference – Anwar Jul 31 '12 at 05:49