[ale] How do I NOT use Unity and DO use Gnome 2 in Ubuntu 11.x?

[Jim Kinney]

The sooner you suffer through the migration to gnome 3, the faster you will
gain proficiency.
Gnome 2 is dead.
There's a fledgling project to glue gnome 2 into mint and support it but no
one from gnome is on it.
If you don't want things changing, stick with a long term distro like the
lts from ubuntu or centos. Security and bug fixes get back ported but
featured are frozen.
If you want cutting edge, the feature changes are a double edged sword.
On Nov 8, 2011 2:41 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Well, the subject says it.  How do I NOT use Unity and DO use Gnome 2 in
> Ubuntu 11.x?  Michael T. has almost convinced me to hit the Update
> button on my old Ubuntu 10.04 based on comments in the "AARG!  Manual
> software updates, Sun Java, LibreOffice, help" thread.  Should I take
> the plunge, and update twice to 11.04, I'll be faced with running the
> Unity UI.  I tried it once before and its lifespan on my system was
> about 30 minutes.  So, if I go down this road, and update and keep 11.04
> on the system, and hate Unity yet again, how do I banish it permanently
> and use Gnome 2 on the newer version of Ubuntu.  I don't know anything
> about Gnome 3, but my objective is to get an up to date system, not to
> change everything I've finally got working like I like it.  PS, I don't
> want to have to specify the UI every time I login.  PPS, I don't have
> the system upgraded yet, so I cannot try instructions you give yet.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
> --
>
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>
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