Hi,
If your friend wants Gnome 3, Gnome-classic is not what
you are looking for. You want to do a
sudo apt-get install gnome gnome-session-fallback
This way, you get the gnome-shell which is quite
accessible these days and is the true blue gnome 3
experience. To enable it, you edit the following two files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
/var/lib/AccountServices/users/<username> where
username is your actual user name.
In both of these files, change the desktop x-session to
gnome or gnome-shell. I’ve never gotten lightdm to work
well for me since it doesn’t talk and I don’t like to just
arrow up and down places where there might be no speech. I
did that once and accidentally changed my language settings
to something like Estonian or something like that and had a
devil of a time putting things right after that when it came
up talking in it. I don’t speak Estonian, you se. Real
pain in the posterior to fix. I don’t recommend it.
Changing the lines in the files I referenced above is
slightly tedious but quite doable with Gedit or Nano both of
which are quite accessible.
Best regards,
Alex M
Hi,
Well, there is a couple of ways of doing this. To begin with
you should open gnome-terminal and do the following.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-classic
This should download and install gnome-classic for you. At
this point you have a couple of ways of setting up the default
desktop.
1. You can logout and from lightdm you can tab once from the
password field, press enter on the sessions button, arrow down
three times to gnome-classic, press enter, shift+tab back to
the password field, enter your password, and press enter to
log into gnome-classic.
2. You can edit the lightdm configuration settings using a
text editor like Nano and replace ubuntu or ubuntu2d with
gnome-classic, save the configurations, logout, and log back
in for Gnome. Sorry, I can't remember the files right off my
head as I've only did it this way once before. I personally
chose just to memorize how to do it from lightdm with or
without speech. Which I personally found easier.
Cheers!
On 4/26/2012 1:38 AM, Portia wrote:
Hi all,
I have 2 questions for a friend.
How do you install Gnome 3 in Ubuntu versions 11.10 and
12.04?
How do you switch from Unity to gnome 3?
Thanks,
Portia.
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