Restoring the old gnome desktop

[Peter Teuben]

On 05/02/2012 07:10 PM, Art Edwards wrote:
> On 04/25/2012 04:09 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
>> I knew I was going to regret switching to the Unity desktop and I was 
>> right!  I was assured that I could choose to use the Classic Gnome 
>> desktop if I didn't like Unity.  I ungraded to version 11.10 and I 
>> can't find how to choose the classic desktop.  On the previous 
>> version, I could at least choose to use the Gnome Classic desktop.
>>
>> I did go to the software repository and downloaded Gnome 3.  I 
>> thought that would restore the Gnome desktop (No dice).  I looked at 
>> the Help menu and I was unable to find it.  So the question is...  
>> What must I do to get back to the Gnome desktop.
>>
>> Bill Stanley
>>
> Just FYI, xfce /is/ pretty nice. (I use the machine for computational 
> physics code development, as well as writing papers, doing email, etc. 
> That might enable you to calibrate these comments.) You can build 
> panels that are very similar to gnome 2. The main menus are a little 
> more clunky in xfce, but quite liveable. I'm running 11.10 right now 
> on a netbook with xfce, and I'm not pulling my hair out. It's good 
> enough that I have not yet run to mate, although news of its stability 
> makes that tempting.
>
> Art Edwards
>
>

thanks Art, I will try that. I'm in the same kinda boat as you. I find 
myself only half as productive
on either unity of "new" gnome.

I've been trying Unity, which I find ok, but cumbersome (still), maybe 
my brain and hands
need more time. Gnome Classic is a disaster. Windows that stick to 
edges, so it takes time to
get to the one you need, touch the top bar and it maximizes, and it can 
be a tour de force to get it
back to smaller size. Desktops are confusing,there's the 2x2 that you 
can get to via the control-alt-arrow, but classic gnome's own desktops 
(if you do more than 1) become useless and near impossible to navigate 
out of. It then has no bottom and top bar.   Also, right click on the 
top bar doesn't allow any more configuration. Alas, perhaps this is all 
in the documentation.  But that's a  LOT of configuration to go from one 
to the other. Please somebody tell me this is just a configuration,
because letting this loose in an LTS distro, sounds just wrong.

I think the BIGGEST complaint I have right now is that my machine is 
constantly at around a load
of 2, and that's without me doing anything. When I do big compiles,  I 
get slowed down. Don't
even mention trying to manage 10 tabs in chrome.All of them doing flashy 
things. Clearly , a 4
year old laptop (core2duo 2Ghz) with 2 GB memory is not sufficient for 
this new style desktop.

peter
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