I removed mono, monodev and all dependencies from my machine (using apt-get remove ---purge etc), but I was a bit overzealous and also removed ubuntu-mono that seems to have a whole ton of dependencies, and I watched in horror as seemingly unrelated applications like firefox(??!) were uninstalled from the machine.
To add insult to injury, my Window Manager (Unity - I guess), was uninstalled too, and I was dumped unceremoniously, back to the command prompt.
Upon restarting the machine, I realised I couldn't even login.
Half a day later, I reinstall xorg, lighdm and ubuntu-desktop, I was then able to log into the machine - but was greeted with a ghastly window manager (terminal is green characters on white background - seriously??!!). And I no longer have the ability to change the window manager during login - the options are no longer presented during login.
I want top revert back to the Window Manager and settings that comes with Ubuntu 16.0.4 - it would seem no one has experienced this particular set of events - because I can't seem to find any documentation on how to resolve it.
This is the content of /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf:
[Seat:*]
user-session=ubuntu
Here is some other miscellaneous useful information:
me@YOURBOX:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Unity
me@YOURBOX:~$ echo $GDMSESSION
ubuntu
me@YOURBOX:~$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 Nov 12 2015 ubuntu.desktop
How do I revert back to the Window Manager and defaults provided out of the box with Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS?
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