After purging lightdm and installing lxdm, cinnamon disappeared, major controls gone
by toddly from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4SW0Z)
Please Note: My previous three threads have either been closed as being resolved, or were erroneously shut down as being duplicates. None of my past threads are duplicates, although as new issues pop up that are unrelated to the original post, I have closed those threads and attempted to start new threads. So far my efforts have been stymied by people who think I have no business looking for solutions to my Linux issues. Perhaps they are absolutely correct, and I am in way over my head. But I at least would like to be allowed to give it a shot.
So anyway, after my light display manager died (an earlier thread), I tried numerous fixes; ultimately purging lightdm, removing leftovers (autoremove), then installing a different dm (lxdm).
(This was all dealt with in a previous thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...33#post6048233 ) Because the new dm basically resolved the matter of the dead lightdm, that thread has been marked as SOLVED, with the new problems created hopefully to be elucidated here.
Initially, after the lightdm purge, autoremove, and lxdm installation, the computer didn't work because cinnamon was apparently completely gone, so I had to reinstall cinnamon; then I got my desktop back minus many critical programs. For instance, I cannot gain access to terminal, have no program manager, firefox is missing, and so on.
So it seems I finally resolved one problem but now have several new problems. Do I need to do an update at this point? Do I need to purge then reinstall other things, like xorg, greeters, gnome? As usual, I am clueless about the causes and how to proceed.
NOTE: I am a bonified newbie and do not understand Linux lingo (terminology), and haven't a clue about how Linux works. Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated. And yes, I do realize that a reinstall may be my best option. I'm just not quite ready for that, yet. Thanks.
So anyway, after my light display manager died (an earlier thread), I tried numerous fixes; ultimately purging lightdm, removing leftovers (autoremove), then installing a different dm (lxdm).
(This was all dealt with in a previous thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...33#post6048233 ) Because the new dm basically resolved the matter of the dead lightdm, that thread has been marked as SOLVED, with the new problems created hopefully to be elucidated here.
Initially, after the lightdm purge, autoremove, and lxdm installation, the computer didn't work because cinnamon was apparently completely gone, so I had to reinstall cinnamon; then I got my desktop back minus many critical programs. For instance, I cannot gain access to terminal, have no program manager, firefox is missing, and so on.
So it seems I finally resolved one problem but now have several new problems. Do I need to do an update at this point? Do I need to purge then reinstall other things, like xorg, greeters, gnome? As usual, I am clueless about the causes and how to proceed.
NOTE: I am a bonified newbie and do not understand Linux lingo (terminology), and haven't a clue about how Linux works. Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated. And yes, I do realize that a reinstall may be my best option. I'm just not quite ready for that, yet. Thanks.