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I've got an Ubuntu 23.04 installed on my laptop, with the default desktop environment being GNOME. Some time ago I started experimenting with other desktop environments like KDE. When I got back to using GNOME, it turned out many things on GNOME is broken:

  • some icons in the menu looks different
  • I cannot lock the screen using keyboard shortcut (despite it being properly specified in settings).
  • locking it using mouse (using icon in the menu on top bar) seems to be broken too. I need to do this twice; first time just make a screen darker without actually locking screen
  • lock screen was replaced by KDE. I want it to look like it was before

How can I bring back GNOME to the state it was before? I don't want to reinstall entire OS, just get GNOME to its defaults.

What I've already tried:

  • sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-shell
  • sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-shell

I've also used:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell

to remove gnome-shell and then I've installed it again, but what I've got as a result is GNOME without Ubuntu tweaks (like taskbar on the left) which is not what I wanted. I'm looking for a way to bring back GNOME version that is shipped with OS installation.

Also, removing and installing gnome-shell again hasn't fixed my login screen (it's still how KDE set it up).

Piotrek
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    It seems that you need to remove the KDE applications, and not the GNOME ones. You can [find the KDE apps you installed](https://askubuntu.com/a/21658/124466). Remove all of them, and reinstall the package `ubuntu-desktop`. – Archisman Panigrahi Jun 18 '23 at 14:44
  • Thanks @Archisman Panigrani, I had a similar issue. Reinstalling `ubuntu-desktop`, per your advice, helped me restore my Gnome visual desktop. – makbeta Aug 02 '23 at 03:37

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