Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Rashkae]

On 06/06/2012 08:31 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> I'm very happy with Gnome Classic + Compiz + AWN.
> Since GNOME Classic is on the way out you might be interested (sometime
> in the dim future) in my own setup of Xfce4, Compiz and Cairo-dock.
> It's likely similar to what you have.
>
> Setting it up on Debian hasn't been too much of a strain.  ;-]
>
> Cybe R. Wizard

That is actually what I'm using on my own Desktop (which is Debian and 
not Ubuntu atm.)  Alas, it's a race to what gets deprecated first, Gnome 
Classic or compiz.  I gather from other developer mailing list 
discussion that no one is maintaining compiz as a stand-alone window 
manager outside of Unity anymore. But it works for now, and there are 
promising desktop projects elsewhere, such as Cinnamon.