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Following this tutorial, I managed to change the environment from "unity-greeter" to "gnome-fallback-compiz" and then I rebooted and I got this:

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Yeah, and all the options are pretty much useless to me which means delete and install. This is actually a clone of my Ubuntu VM so no progress has been lost :) but I never had an issue like this in 12.04, the previous LTS. Maybe I should try gnome-fallback instead of gnome-fallback-compiz but then its not compiz but really at this point I don't care. Any suggestions about this?

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Try with this Gnome3 shell, remove the gnome-fallback-compiz Remove this in terminal, DON'T purge anything and install: sudo apt-get install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop

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  • I'll try, but I do NOT want Gnome Shell if thats what your thinking, I am specifically making a version for a friend that uses the old fasion style gnome desktop environment to get them off 10.04 – davidbuddy9 Dec 10 '14 at 02:13
  • Try it anyway, then install gnome-fallback-compizover it. – Zbunjeni Dec 10 '14 at 02:28
  • Its asking me weather to use lightdm or gdm? what do I choose? Lightdm? – davidbuddy9 Dec 10 '14 at 02:30
  • take GDM, that is the gnome interface and gnome greeter – Zbunjeni Dec 10 '14 at 02:40
  • Anyways Idk what kind of awful gnome experience that was but it crashed when I restarted not with the same error, it couldn't recognise something and dropped me to the command line. I just deleted the VM, I think I'll try uninstalling Unity but keep unity as default for the launcher, that worked in 12.04 too I'll try tomorrow or when I have time. – davidbuddy9 Dec 10 '14 at 02:53
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The issue was that I was editing the wrong file. I was editing the greeter file rather than the file used in the tutorial.

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