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[Chris Linstid]

My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. I've been much
happier since. It may be missing some of the graphical bells and whistles
you get with gnome 2 plus compositing, but at least I have all of the
functionality that I'm used to from gnome 2.

     - Chris


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net
> > wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Maybe I'm just looking to hold on to gnome.  It worked well enough.  It
>> didn't have too much stupid stuff and was relatively easy to maintain.
>>
>> Any insights?
>>
>
> Who knows how long it will still be available, but if you launch Ubuntu
> Software Center and install the GNOME Desktop Environment package (or
> apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment) you will get GNOME and GNOME
> Classic options in the "gear" menu on the login screen. GNOME is
> GNOME3/Mutter/GNOME Shell and GNOME Classic (I believe) is
> GNOME3/Metacity/Gnome Panel (Metacity/Gnome Panel being the GNOME2 'user
> experience') as opposed to the GNOME3/Compiz/Unity you get in the
> "ubuntu-desktop"
>
> -Shawn
>
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