I've got an Ubuntu 23.04 installed on my laptop, with the default desktop environment being GNOME. Some time ago I started experimenting with other desktop environments like KDE. When I got back to using GNOME, it turned out many things on GNOME is broken:
- some icons in the menu looks different
- I cannot lock the screen using keyboard shortcut (despite it being properly specified in settings).
- locking it using mouse (using icon in the menu on top bar) seems to be broken too. I need to do this twice; first time just make a screen darker without actually locking screen
- lock screen was replaced by KDE. I want it to look like it was before
How can I bring back GNOME to the state it was before? I don't want to reinstall entire OS, just get GNOME to its defaults.
What I've already tried:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-shellsudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-shell
I've also used:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell
to remove gnome-shell and then I've installed it again, but what I've got as a result is GNOME without Ubuntu tweaks (like taskbar on the left) which is not what I wanted. I'm looking for a way to bring back GNOME version that is shipped with OS installation.
Also, removing and installing gnome-shell again hasn't fixed my login screen (it's still how KDE set it up).
ubuntu-desktop. – Archisman Panigrahi Jun 18 '23 at 14:44ubuntu-desktop, per your advice, helped me restore my Gnome visual desktop. – makbeta Aug 02 '23 at 03:37