One foot out the door!: I've grown to hate Linux Ubuntu

[Avi Greenbury]

Douglas Saylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:46 PM, William Biggs <kc8pdr at ymail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > have you tried to use the gnome with out the effects
> 
> I don't know what you mean, so probably "no" is the answer.
> 

In Ubuntu 10.04 at the login prompt you had the option of either using
Unity (the new desktop environment) or Gnome 2 (the old one). 

In 11.10 everything is based on Gnome 3 rather than Gnome 2, so there's
no Gnome 2 option. You can, however, install a much less
resource-hungry version of Gnome 3 and use that. It looks a bit like
Gnome 2. and acts in the same way in a number of areas.

To get it, you need to install the package 'gnome-session-fallback'.
You can then log out and click the cog icon by the password entry field
on the login menu, and choose 'Gnome Classic' or 'Gnome Classic (No
Effects)' - the latter's more likely to help, but the former *might*.

-- 
Avi