Installing Ubuntu Unity Desktop instead of Ubuntu Mate/Kubuntu

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The terminal issue might be Unity expecting Gnome Terminal. I had a similar issue switching from KDE to Gnome, Gnome just didn't want to show Konsole in the menus.

Did either DM end up displaying for you, or did you have to resort to startx? I had a similar issue on an AmLogic board recently in Ubuntu, no DM would startup, and if it did, I couldn't make it to the desktop.

Thanks

Yes I figured the first issue may be it was waiting for gnome terminal. What was weird was the desktop seemed to load

I had tried a straight forward install of ubuntu-desktop but that would not boot at all...even wayland ubuntu. 

When I installed ubuntu-unity-desktop it booted and seemed to work..looked nice too BUT no terminal or right click on the trackpad. Yet to try it with a mouse and wondered if the trackpad update needed to be reapplied.

One question. 

How hard would it be to build a pure Ubuntu Desktop build do you think

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Well....sometimes brute force is needed. 

Forgot the power of Alt and f2 Of course!! I rarely used this but this worked

That located the terminal! and other apps I needed which I could then pin to the unity. See attachments
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All that does not seem to work despite re running the trackpad updater is the right click..will work on that now