Re: [orca-list] Installing gnome and switching from unity to gnome3 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, Krishnakant,  Please see responses below:


On 4/26/2012 11:39 AM, Krishnakant mane wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> I am keen to try out Gnome3.
> I have a few questions before I give it a try.
> 1, will I have gnome3 in the session options along with Ubuntu and Ubuntu2d?  This is necessary so that I can 
> switch to what ever I choos at every login.
Yes, but it will be listed as simply gnome and not gnome 3.

> 2, what is the status of gnome3 accessibility?  can we use it as easily as Unity?  I think to use it we must 
> have the menu, usable, should be able to make desktop shortcuts, and overall navigate the file system along 
> with other titbits.
It's quite accessible.  Gnome 3 is what Unity copied so it uses 
launchers and a search system for your applications.  You don't use 
menus and you don't use the desktop much.  When you want to launch 
something, you hit alt f1 and type in the name of the app then tab to 
get a list of matches form either applications or books.

> 3, how similar is it to gnome classic?
Completely different.  It is similar to Unity or, rather, Unity is 
similar to it.  If you want to try it out without messing up your log in 
preferences, simply hit alt f2 from your gnome classic session and type 
in the following:

gnome-shell --replace

The system will freeze for a couple of breaths and then, you wil be in 
gnome shell.

> When you no longer wish to be in it just alt f2 and type gksu shutdown now and press your enter key.  When 
> your machine reboots, log in as normal and remember how gnome-shell was.  I rather like it.

Alex M
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:44:11AM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
> > 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.  Iâve never gotten lightdm to work well for me 
> > since it doesnât talk and I donât 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 donât speak Estonian, you se.  Real pain in the posterior to fix.  I 
> > donât 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:12 AM
> > To: Portia
> > Cc: orca-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Installing gnome and switching from unity to gnome3 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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