[15:45] <dzho> oh dear sweet fsm wtf has ubuntu done to me now
[15:45] <dzho> Activities
[15:46] <dzho> There's what is presumably a network manager icon in the bar across the top, on the right, but when I click it I get a volume control
[15:46] <dzho> everything that had been on the left hand side of the screen (eg, Terminal, browser, etc) has been reset to a set of defaults
[15:46] <dzho> w.t.a.f.
[20:04] <dzho> ahahahaha, so, I've logged out and back in again, which gave me opportunity to see that the login manager switched me from Ubuntu to GNOME
[20:04]  * dzho huggles Ubuntu now that he sees what they've been up against.
[20:04] <Unit193> Hah.
[20:05] <dzho> I'm still a little bit angry at them for throwing me into that but bugs happen.
[20:05] <dzho> sort of they-don't-get-any-dessert-tonight angry, rather than burn the fscker down angry
[20:06] <Unit193> Why'd you get a new session anyway?
[20:06] <dzho> that's the bug, I think.  I logged out in anticipation of the upgrades I applied requiring a restart.
[20:07] <dzho> I did the upgrades from a virtual terminal, all apt-get dist-upgrade like.
[20:07] <dzho> logged back in, and whoah, I guess this is GNOME eh?
[20:07] <dzho> logged back in via the login manager that is
[20:07] <Unit193> dpkg -S the file under /usr/share/xsessions/?
[20:08] <dzho> there are four
[20:08] <dzho> $ ls /usr/share/xsessions/
[20:08] <dzho> gnome.desktop                  gnome-fallback.desktop
[20:08] <dzho> gnome-fallback-compiz.desktop  ubuntu.desktop
[20:09] <dzho> I have lightdm and gdm both.
[20:09] <dzho> I think my default is gdm, but how and why and when I set that may be lost to the mists of time.
[20:09] <dzho> but it would make sense for gdm to give you a GNOME desktop, except for my having set it differently in the past.
[20:10] <dzho> probably not a thing they test for because if you use gdm you use GNOME.  Duh, right?
[20:11] <Unit193> Well of course!
[20:12] <dzho> I feel a little less like the world is crumbling around me.