Falling back to gnome-panel in Oneiric (again)

[Paul Hunt]

Okay, TB message reading problem has resurfaced.

If this was twitter I'd use hashtag #doublegutted

Oh well, still nice to have the old menu system back.


On 13/01/12 22:57, Dave Hunt wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
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> YMMV,
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> Dave
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> 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
>>
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