Gnome 2 window manager

[Joel Addison]

Hi David,

I suspect you will find that it is pretty hard. Gnome 2 is quite different to Unity/Gnome Shell, which both use Gnome 3 applications. You would have to completely uninstall all Gnome applications, and then find someone who is still compiling Gnome 2 for Ubuntu (there may be some Debian versions around), then install them.

There is an option though to install the gnome-session-fallback package, which looks and feels more like Gnome 2. Check out the guide here for details http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-classic-gnome-desktop-in-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail.html

If you don't like Unity, there is an option to use the Gnome version of Ubuntu, which uses Gnome 3 without Unity. This is now an official remix, and can be downloaded from http://ubuntugnome.org/

Joel


On 04/09/2013, at 5:38 PM, David Bowskill <david at bowskill.net> wrote:

> Hello All
> Can anybody please tell me how difficult it is to replace the window manager(s) in the latest Ubuntu with Gnome2 from Ubuntu 10.04 ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
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