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I want to delete the ubuntu desktop components including the applications, e.c.t. I want to replace it completely wiht the unity desktop, exept That I want just the applications that come wiht unity to be on, and not the gnome ones. I have already found a list of applications to remove, but there are a few packages that are not to be uninstalled, so it does not work.

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    Your release of Ubuntu would be helpful. Unity was a GNOME alternative desktop, and used GNOME applications so most will not change. You can add Unity desktop with ubuntu-unity-desktop the package (packages.ubuntu.com/…)
    – guiverc
    Feb 23, 2019 at 0:36
  • @guiveric Done!
    – Christopher C
    Feb 23, 2019 at 2:20
  • Does ubuntu-unity-desktop have all the apps with it? I know unity 8 (unity8.io) does not. @guiverc
    – Christopher C
    Feb 23, 2019 at 2:29
  • And is there a way to have the unity8 apps with it? @guiverc
    – Christopher C
    Feb 23, 2019 at 2:30
  • You were not specific, and I assumed Unity 7 (as used in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS & 16.04 LTS, and available for 18.04 LTS & 18.10). Unity 7 apps and everything found on Unity is included in that package (opening the link shows that). Unity 8 was Qt based (not GTK+ as found in Gnome) thus its apps are different (being Qt as found in KDE (Kubuntu) or LXQt (Lubuntu 18.10 onwards)) being supported by UBports & not Canonical. I've seen many blogs about it, but don't recall facts as didn't interest me.
    – guiverc
    Feb 23, 2019 at 2:40

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Reset to default
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sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop

Answer yes to the question for lightdm default.

sudo shutdown -r now

Remove GDM and restore automatic login

sudo apt remove gnome-shell

Restart the computer

If you choose automatic login, go in user account, unlock and set the switch off and on again. Lock user account and restart.

unity --version
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