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

[Don Kramer]

Likely your longest support window for a Gnome 2 desktop is going to be
Centos 6 and Scientific Linux 6, extended support til 2017 mirroring RHEL
6, and I think the main rpm repos plus rpmforge and backports do a little
better of a job in more current software than Debian based distros. What I
don't know is can you run GTK3 apps in Gnome 2? I have a feeling that XFCE
and LXDE is going are carry the banner of the traditional desktop metaphor,
as well as IMHO don't count out how well Gnome 3 fallback mode might work
by Gnome 3.4.  That said I am using Debian Squeeze on my laptop but the old
software is frustrating for me too (although I think the Libreoffice from
backports is 3.4.3).



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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Ron Frazier

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