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I have previously installed the 'gnome-session-fallback' package to get the standard Gnome desktop instead of unity. I normally just select 'Gnome Classic' when I log in. Just now, I logged in with unity instead just to test it, and now I can't get back to Gnome.
If i select 'Gnome Classic' on the login screen, I get unity instead. 'Gnome Classic (No effects) does launch Gnome instead of unity, but I want the real thing.
How can I have my Gnome desktop back?
This is not exactly as you said. I had this problem in the past. Gnome-classic loads the gnome-classic environment with effects. Sometimes is not disable the Unity plugin (it should do) and you have a gnome-classic environment with Unity Launcher.
Try 2 things.
First try to re-install gnome-classic environment with this command
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-panel
OR
Install the compizconfig-settings-manager with this command
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Open it via terminal with this command (or you can call it from Dash)
ccsm
and disable manually the Unity Plugin. (but this is just a workaround)
