I just did a Debian install on an old laptop, and I don't need Gnome shell on it. I did it with apt-get remove gnome-shell, and it worked after I restarted. However, later I did apt-get autoremove, and I was a bit tired and didn't read any of the package names it listed - turned out it removed a whole bunch of important packages from my system, forcing me to re-install Debian from scratch.Is there another way to disable Gnome shell as the default?I tried the following command from the Debian wiki, but it didn't work:$ gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager \       -t string metacity
How to properly disable Gnome 3 shell in Debian?
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