Dell Latitude E5570 running Ubuntu 24.
Following a recent crash, the Mad Penguin helped me to recover sufficiently to back up the few files I’d created since my last backup. Thank you.
Not liking the Unity desktop, I installed ages ago the original, simple “gnome-session-flashback” (Metacity) desktop. Later, I installed the KDE desktop - just to play around with as I am not really familiar with how the various possible desktops interact with the operating system and I thought it might be an interesting exercise. But KDE turned out to be very memory hungry and unnecessarily complicated for this user so I reverted to the plain vanilla Metacity desktop.
Following my recovery from the crash, I find now that KDE has “bled into” Metacity and generally messed things up here and there. Examples: …
- the log-in screen is KDE despite having selected Metacity.
- at top right of the Metacity desktop bar is the icon for selecting Reboot, “About this computer”, Settings etc. Clicking on Settings does nothing. But there is a KDE System Settings listed in the Applications menus.
- several other KDE applications are now listed in the Applications menus and “Places” is now “Double Commander”, although Nautilus is still listed under Accessories.
- printing double-sided, long-edge actually prints double-sided short-edge
…and so it goes on.
My choice is now between attempting to remove KDE entirely (and hoping that Metacity is undamaged ) or re-installing Ubuntu. As I have no real objection to re-installing Ubuntu (or perhaps I’ll try Debian using the wonderful Universal Boot-loader Key) it might be instructive to try removing KDE, if that’s not too onerous.
Advice would be welcome.
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