Recently, I installed Ubuntu MATE. Then, because I want Cinnamon and only Cinnamon and Cinnamon is basically all I care about, I did apt remove mate-desktop
or something to that effect, rebooted, and lightdm
refused to work and the only solution was reinstall.
So, I reinstalled, this time Lubuntu. I'd like to make the L
in Lubuntu go away*, so its apps stop infringing upon my desktop, and so I don't have to deal with its ugliness.
I'm fearful, however, that doing apt remove lubuntu-desktop
will remove everything that Core Ubuntu knows about, which is an issue.
How can I make LXDE
(and openbox, if possible) go away without harming the integrity of my system?
As I understand Ubuntu, there's Official Ubuntu, running Unity, and then the Official Flavours are just different DEs and default packages, so in my understanding I can just purge what I don't want and end up with a functioning system. That doesn't seem to be the case, though.
*Why, then, did I install Lubuntu? Because I wanted a lightweight version of Ubuntu to build on, and UbuntuMinimalCD was being buggy.