I just upgraded my older laptop to Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to try something more lightweight.
So, I installed lubuntu-desktop
as recommended in how to replace ubuntu with lubuntu and it made no difference.
When I purged unity
and unity-2d
as recommended in Is there an easy way to change Ubuntu flavor during upgrade?, the unity Panel on top of the screen disappeared but no new menus are available and pressing the "start" button (on the left) does not do anything. I hoped that I would see something similar to the pre-unity ubuntu, but this did not happen.
So, how do I switch from ubuntu to lubuntu (without burning a CD and installing from scratch? (or at least get a working ubuntu back!)