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

sdavmor sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Mon Mar 7 17:41:16 UTC 2011


On 03/07/2011 08:35 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:22 AM, sdavmor<sdavmor at systemstheory.net>
> wrote:
>> On 02/15/2011 06:27 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> As has been pointed out several times there is no requirement
>>> to use Unity on 11.10.  Simply select the classic Ubuntu
>>> interface from the logon screen.
>>
>> On my machine the upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 alpha 3
>> deinstalled Gnome. I had to reinstall it from the repositories
>> before being able to select a different interface other than
>> Unity from the logon screen.
>
> It *may* have uninstalled gnome-panel but not GNOME itself. Unity
> is a shell for GNOME!

Okay. Thanks for the correction. Nevertheless, until I flagged gnome
for reinstallation in package manager I wasn't able to see any other
choice for interface pop up at the logon point.
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