Click on it and select the desktop environment you want to use.
Click on the username and you’ll see the gear icon. The good thing is that you can go back to your regular desktop environment the same way you switch to Regolith. Tiling window manager is not everyone’s cup of tea (or coffee). I can understand if you didn’t like Regolith enough to use it as your main desktop. You can find some useful information to get started with Regolith desktop here. You’ll have to use command line to shutdown Ubuntu here. Since I have never used i3wm or any other tiling window manager, I find it weird that there is no shutdown option here. The keyboard shortcuts displayed on the desktop is not correct for logging out. You can log out of Regolith using the Super+Shift+E key combination. At the user login screen, click the username and you should see a gear symbol, Click on it and it would give you the option to change the desktop environment. Once you have installed it, reboot your system.
#Windows grid manager install#
You can install it using the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:kgilmer/regolith-stable
Regolith desktop is available through PPA in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher versions. This means if you are already running Ubuntu, you can install Regolith desktop and use it beside your regular desktop environment. The developer totally understands that not everyone would be willing to replace their existing Ubuntu system just to get a tiling window manager and this is why he has made it available as a desktop as well. And hence Regolith Linux was born as a customized version of Ubuntu. That’s when he decided to package it so that he could use it easily on new system. Its developer experimented with i3wm, tweaked it to his liking but soon realized that he had to do it all over again on all the systems he used. In fact, Regolith doesn’t pretend to be a standalone distribution. Wait! Don’t we already have enough of Ubuntu-based distributions that change nothing more than the theme and wallpaper? Regolith doesn’t want to be that kind of distribution. Regolith is a Linux distribution that brings Ubuntu’s simplicity, GNOME’s configuration and i3wm’s tiling interface together.
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