ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Ryan Gauger]

Unity is a shell for GNOME. The default Ubuntu installation allows you to
use Unity - although it does not come with a separate GNOME desktop
environment. GNOME Shell can be installed using the terminal - "sudo
apt-get install gnome-shell", without the quotations. Installing the
package GNOME Shell also installs the GNOME Classic (GNOME Fallback)
session. GNOME Classic is a lot like GNOME 2, but a lot less customisable.
You can select between these sessions (along with Unity) at login. Thanks!

In Christ,
Ryan

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ty Tom. I thought Unity is separate from GNOME (like KDE)
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Ubuntu Users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 2, 2012 2:32 PM
> *Subject:* Re: ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Q1. is it possible to remove unity and HUD and install GNOME?
> > Q2. what apps/functionality will i loose?
>
> If you have Unity installed, you have GNOME installed. You mean that
> you want to replace Unity with GNOME Shell.
>
> You can install "gnome-shell" either from the regular Ubuntu repos or
> from a PPA.
>
> I have no idea whether you can uninstall Unity and, if you can, what
> effect it'll have; I have both Unity and GNOME Shell installed (and
> Cinnamon).
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