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If I would like to completely uninstall the default Unity Greeter and use text mode login instead, how should I go about it?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - the regular flavor; with Unity.

I prefer a command-line solution that can be scripted later.

Nickolai Leschov
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  • So you want to login with a command line and then start the GUI? or just Command line? – Tim Oct 29 '15 at 22:30
  • Yes, that's what I would like: log in with a command line to a command-line environment, I can always figure how to autostart X later (and on a per-user basis). Continuing to autostart the GUI is also fine, though: switching to text mode login is the important part. – Nickolai Leschov Nov 09 '15 at 13:54
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    if you uninstall unity there will be no way to start gui. However... – Tim Nov 09 '15 at 17:18
  • @Tim I was trying to uninstall Unity Greeter, not Unity. However, I tried the proposed solution (modifying /etc/default/grub with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text") in a question this is supposedly a duplicate of, and it doesn't work for me. Have any of you marking this as duplicate actually try it? – Nickolai Leschov Nov 13 '15 at 22:15
  • I doubt any of us have tried it. We closed it because you seemed to be asking the same thing. In what way does it not work? – Tim Nov 13 '15 at 22:17

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