How can I go back to Ubuntu classic from Unity in 11.10.

[Avi Greenbury]

Adam Funk wrote:

> On 2011-10-19, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 08:22 +0600, Md Ashickur Rahman Noor wrote:
> >> I think you can not. 
> >
> > You can get close by running Gnome-3 in "Classic" mode.  You will
> > need to install the "gnome-shell" package.  Then the login dialogue
> > gives you an option for starting your session in that mode.  In
> > classic mode you have the normal top and bottom panel.  One obscure
> > point to remeber is you must hold down the Alt key and right click
> > on a panel to add or remove panel applets or create a new panel.
> 
> Will it pick up all my existing GNOME configuration (panels, drawers,
> launchers)?  I'd hate to lose my customizations.

No. It's not so much Gnome 2 as Gnome 3 bent to look a bit like it. It
has all the same major differences as Gnome 3, so you're likely to lose
any customisations that you can no longer make under Gnome 3 anyway,
and much of the panel's features.

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Avi