Embarrassing question re Compiz

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2020-07-04 at 11:05 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> compiz is still around and is still part of the ubuntu-unity-desktop
> package ...
> 
> however, you can *not* use compiz with the recent gnome ... 

Now I'm torn... I have to say I think the "new" GNOME is a hugely
retrograde step. It feels coarse and dumbed-down compared to Unity.
Mind you. I hated Unity when I first saw it :-)

So I'm not sure now whether I should give the defaults a better go, or
just ignore it and go back to Unity. I haven't found any actual deal-
breakers, just a lot of things that are annoyingly not quite as good as
Unity, and quite a few things that just seem petty - why put the "Save"
button in a file dialogue at the top right, miles away from the file
type selector, when it's been at the bottom right for ages? Why have
sidebars appear OUTSIDE the range of the close widget? Etc...

> you can indeed go back to unity by installing the above desktop
> package (it will then show up in the session list of the login
> manager) and use compiz there

OK. So:
- compiz is already installed
- I install ubuntu-unity-desktop
- will Unity just pick it up?

Thanks, K.

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