Ubuntu – Ubuntu 18.04 stopped booting into GUI

bootxfce

I tried to clean some packages up and wound up screwing something up.

Now, it no longer boots to a graphic window: I get a terminal login screen.

I'm using xfce4 and I can use the startx command to enter the graphical environment, but I'd prefer to go straight to a graphic login, user-screen and so on.

Ubuntu 18.04 latest.

Best Answer

Clean away the wreckage of the old Desktop Environment before reinstalling xfce by

sudo apt purge  '~n^libxfce4.*' '~n^libexo.*' '~n^libgarcon.*'
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
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