Switching from Unity 7 to GNOME

[Alexander Langanke]

I had a very similar problem initially. Unity 7 looked strange after
installing gnome shell. Logging into gnome or gnome on Wayland worked well
except for the scaling issue you mentioned. Gnome tweak tool has a scaling
slider which works solves that problem when set to a factor of 2. I am on a
QHD Dell XPS 13 "project Sputnik" machine.

Hope that helps.

Alex

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 16:58 Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Olivier, thank you very much for your help, but, unfortunately, it did
> not work. See below.
>
> On 04/30/2017 06:35 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Till Kamppeter
> > <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have switched from Yakkety to Zesty right after the release and this
> >> replaced my very stable Unity 7 by Unity 8. After the second crash of my
> >> desktop (required a system reboot) I switched over to GNOME.
> >
> > Do you mean that the unity7 entry disappeared from the login options,
> > or that the default changed to unity8? Either way, that sounds like a
> > bug, unity8 was never meant to become default or replace unity7
> > altogether in zesty.
> >
>
> After logging in for the first time after booting the updated machine, I
> got a desktop which looks like the old one. I was not sure whether it
> was Unity 7 or Unity 8 using the old configuration of my Unity 7
> desktop. So I did
>
> dpkg -l | grep unity
>
> and saw that most packages have an 8.x version number. This made me
> assuming that I am under Unity 8.
>
> >
> >> To do so I installed "gnome-session", then logged out, clicked on the
> Ubuntu
> >> logo near the user name, and selected GNOME and logged in again, getting
> >> rewarded with a shiny GNOME desktop.
> >>
> >> Note that "GNOME with Wayland" does not work for me. I simply get a
> black
> >> screen (I have a 2nd-gen Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Intel GPU).
> >
> > Try removing unity8-desktop-session. That did the trick for me.
> >
>
> I tried it now and the result was that I could not log in into any
> desktop any more. I had to go to a text console and install it again.
> Then logging in into the desktops worked again.
>
> Without unity8-desktop-session after selecting any desktop (Ubuntu
> default, GNOME, GNOME/Wayland) and then entering the password I got a
> black screen with an error message (for a second or so, too fast to read
> the error message) and then got back to the login screen.
>
> Switching desktops also causes a problem with HiDPI screens (mine is QHD
> 2560x1440). The magnification of the text changes and I end up with very
> small text. I have to go to the Ubuntu default (aka Unity 7), call the
> System Settings there, choose the Displays section and set the zoom
> there to 2.0. This zoom is missing in the Display section of the GNOME
> System Settings. And the "Large Text" in Universal Accessibility of
> GNOME's System Settings zooms too much, it would need a slider to adjust
> the zoom factor.
>
> >
> >> I tried the same on my Artful VM (QEMU), but there the LightDM has no
> Ubuntu
> >> logo at the user name. How do I switch desktops there?
> >>
>
> Anyone could help me with this one?
>
>     Till
>
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