I installed The GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components
, but I didn't like it, so I uninstalled it. But now at the login screen, besides the password box there's still the button to choose Unity, Gnome and Gnome basic or something like that. How can I completely remove it?
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@MHC, thanks for the edit. I didn't do anything other than the italics because there recently were questions raised about editing questions to fit the answers.– user25656Apr 14, 2013 at 12:55
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I remember reading somewhere that (sudo) deleting what you don't need from /usr/share/xsessions
will clean up your login screen. While the titles of the .desktop
files are quite explanatory, you could make sure by viewing their contents in a text editor. Just to be safe, copy those .desktop
files elsewhere first!
See How can I use LightDM for user-defined sessions? for more.
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Found this after searching for
lightdm still showing session after removing desktop file from /usr/share/xsessions
. In my case, I was on Fedora 38 Cinnamon and had installed the 'Fedora Workstation' (Gnome) group then decided to get rid of it. removing the desktop file from/usr/share/xsessions
was only part of the solution for me. After some investigating, I realized there was also a/usr/bin/gnome-session
and packagegnome-session
; removing that got rid of the remaining entries. I am not sure what the ubuntu equivalent is but maybe this can point someone in the right direction.– zpangwinAug 27, 2023 at 18:17