I have installed GNOME Shell, logged into it, but on boot the computer logs in to an Ubuntu session. I have automatic login enabled.
How can I fix this? How can I make Ubuntu remember my choice of desktop environment?
Edit lightdm.conf with gedit and change the user-session=ubuntu
to user-session=gnome
gksudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Edit gnome.desktop with gedit and change Exec=gnome-session --session=ubuntu
to Exec=gnome-session --session=gnome
gksudo gedit /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
After this you will login directly to you gnome desktop ;)
The answer that worked: Reinstall and make sure password is required to sign in is checked. This allows the gnome to install and work properly.
If you use either of the two answers:
edit lightdm.conf & gnome.desktop
-or-
apt-get remove unity
be sure to edit /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
and change
Exec=gnome-session --session=ubuntu
to
Exec=gnome-session --session=gnome
From terminal...
sudo nano /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
I wish this worked. I had to remove Unity-desktop to get it to allow me into gnome-shell
sudo apt-get remove unity