Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 01:22, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have just upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, and I find the Desktop functions quite differently to the way it used to.

16.04 used Ubuntu's own Unity desktop.

180.4 and later use GNOME 3.

I personally can't stand it.

If you type

sudo apt-install ubuntu-unity-desktop

... you can get the old one back again. This is what I did.

> I can no longer press ctrl-space-c to close windows; I have to use the down arrow to select close.

FWIW and for when Unity goes out of support...

This isn't the standard keystroke (Alt+F4 or Ctrl+W) -- you're using
the window control menu. XFCE respects that and its keystrokes more
than GNOME or KDE.

There is also a free Unity remix now:
https://ubuntuunity.org/

It's very impressive -- the head of the remix is just 10!

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