Falling back to gnome-panel in Oneiric (again)

[Dave Hunt]

Falling back to gnome panel will not fix the issues with unity or 
t-bird, just be a work-around, allowing you to avoid them.  Furthermore, 
the issues around thunderbird not reading the correct message summary, 
trouble cursoring in the message body, and so on, are not specific to 
gnome panel.  All that said, Here's how I revert to gnome panel.

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jconti/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
nano /var/lib/AccountsService/users/dave

I look for the line containing 'XSession=', and replace 'ubuntu-2d' with 
'gnome-fallback', then reboot.  The sessions, when I'm logged in as 
dave, are gnome panel.

Your username will be something else.  The jconti ppa has gnome panel 
applets ported to gnome 3.


YMMV,


Dave





On 01/13/2012 05:48 PM, Paul Hunt wrote:
> 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
>