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

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:23 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Unity drives me nuts as well - worst desktop that I've *ever* used.

Not tried it myself. I quite liked the Netbook Remix interfaces in
9.10 and 10.04, although the latter had serious display problems on my
Thinkpad X31. The 10.10 NBR will not launch at all - a process called
"mutter" continuously crashes and restarts the whole WM. It's not even
possible to cleanly log out.

I've filed it as a bug; no interest at all.

On the same machine, kernel mode switching breaks suspend and resume
and the Plymouth graphical loading-progress program displays corrupted
graphics. I've managed to fix all these myself but again, no interest
in my filed bugs.

Thus, I have grave concerns that a Unity-based Ubuntu will be at all
usable on anything less than very recent hardware with a fairly
capable, well-supported OpenGL accelerator.

> 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.

I suspect these may be the same sorts of issues.

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