[11.04]-Turn Off Unity & Use Classic Gnome?

Jordon Bedwell jordon at envygeeks.com
Tue Feb 15 03:45:46 UTC 2011


On 2/14/2011 9:23 PM, NoOp wrote:
> Unity drives me nuts as well - worst desktop that I've *ever* used.
>
> When you log in, select the username. At the bottom of the screen you
> can select which desktop you'd prefer to use. On my HP G60 laptop I
> found that using 'Ubuntu Classic Desktop' crashes and causes multiple
> issues (I've not bothered to file bug reports yet as I only boot into it
> every few days). The only way that I can get a reliable gnome desktop is
> to use 'Ubuntu Classic Desktop (No Effect)'. That, for me is reasonably
> stable.

Quite possibly the crashes are caused by the experimental support for 
wayland, I don't know if the normal effects in Ubuntu even support it yet.




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