Hi friends of ubunlog, in this basic tutorial I am going to teach you how to change the desktop that comes by default in the latest versions of Ubuntu, which is none other than him unity desk.
Well in theory we will not change anything if not we will install the new and revamped gnome-shell desktop and then we will make it the default desktop when logging in.
We are going to do all this from the terminal itself and with some simple instructions, so let's start with installing gnome-shell:
Installing gnome-shell
The first of all will be to open a new terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
This will download from Ubuntu repositories the gnome-shell desktop and install it on our Ubuntu.
With this, it would no longer be necessary to do anything else, since we would have installed the gnome-shell desktop, the only thing that to access it you have to do it rebooting the system and clicking on the wheel that appears in the login, right on the screen where we enter our password:
Clicking on the option gnome, the impressive and functional desktop of gnome-shell:
Setting gnome-shell as default desktop
If you want gnome-shell be the default desktop When logging into Ubuntu, you just have to open a new terminal and type the following command:
sudo / usr / lib / lightdm / lightdm-set-defaults -s gnome-shell
With this every time we log into our operating system, it will be the new desktop of gnome-shell the one that will start by default, if you want to put default the desk of Unity You should only type the following line in a new terminal:
sudo / usr / lib / lightdm / lightdm-set-defaults -s ubuntu
With this we will have correctly installed gnome-shell, the most spectacular desktop, in my personal opinion, for our distro Favorite Linux.
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