Falling back to gnome-panel in Oneiric (again)

[Paul Hunt]

Hi,

Piecing together what I read from a couple of emails on this subject 
from a while back...

I tried the following commands to revert to classic gnome-panel

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

dbus-send --type=method_call --system --reply-timeout=1000 
--dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXSession string:gnome-fallback

The packages were installed and the dbus command seemed to work (at 
least, I got no errors) but no change to the launcher.

Is there something else I need to do?

There are multiple issues with unity-2d such as the Thunderbird message 
reading problem, notifications not being read by Orca and menus not 
always working properly which I believe can all be solved by reverting 
back to gnome-panel.

Not to mention the fact it's just easier to find your applications with 
gnome-panel.

Thanks.
Paul