How to Use Classic GNOME Session on Ubuntu 11.04

Badly needed info;)

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Unity is OK+++++++
IMHO
but tutorial is great :)
easy like it should be :D

ubunt & unity awesome ;-)

"Unity" is sucks.

Great one.
I did not knew this method.
I thought we had to remove Unity from Synaptic

Any way to remove Unity completly from the system so it wont ocupy more disk space wen it updates?

Unity is complete crap. I just switched to Kubuntu and could never be happier. In fact I'm even more happy with KDE than I ever was with GNOME2.

Same here. KDE is simply awesome and is all that both GNOME3 and Unity should be and even more.

IMO, the only thing wrong with the classic gnome desktop is the fact that you are no longer able to move things around on the panels! This alone forced me to revert back to 10.10!

I rather use Gnome 3 or KDE instead of unity, it sucks

You can enable Classic under System>Administration>LogOnScreen

I switched to LINUX MINT !!!

i hope ubuntu 11.10 will have improved unity with compiz....
i m happy with ubuntu

Well, I can tell you it _doesn't_ work. You get logged into the gnome desktop, but you cannot move windows nor resize them. Lot's of other stuff does not work. Right-clicks on windows pass through them and work on the background instead. This is because somehow compiz is all messed up in Natty Narwhal. It is possible to fix some of these problems via the compiz config settings manager. Under window management, enable `move window´ and `resize window´. It does not work right away, you have to log out and back in for the settings to take. This is new, because settings in ccsm used to take effect immediately. Other stuff that is broken: blurred transparent terminal windows. Compiz just crashes on them or restarts multiple times per second when having that enabled. The mac-like exposé function is broken (move mouse to a specified corner and have all windows as miniatures on the screen so you can pick one; it's under window management->scale->initiate window picker for all windows). Lots of other problems. Might be a new but buggy version of compiz, or ubuntu specific alterations or a configuration to make compiz just right for unity or whatever. Fact is, for me, not only did Canonical add unity which is all but unusable and severely limited compared to normal Gnome+compiz, no, they also _broke_ the old gnome+compiz. Luckily I could figure out how to (somewhat) fix it. I can imagine that lots of other people may not be able to.

So then, what do we do when they remove this option in there next release just a few months away? This is only a short term band-aid. I've been trying to use 11.04 with unity, couldn't take it no more and switched distro's to linux mint debian. Something just seems so wrong about have a smart phone app on your desktop. :(

Is there a way to copy all your panel icons and restore them in this method. I have a ton I use and it would be a royal pain to restore them all, thanks

I could not get Unity back. What can I do to get it back? Is there a process that should be running?

We have used and loved Ubuntu since 2007. Two of the three desktops in our household run Ubuntu 10.10 and my laptop is dual-boot Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7. When we tried 11.04 we persevered, but found that Unity reduced our productivity. Using different apps for interrelated tasks on separate workspaces was a breeze on 10.10, but a pain in Unity. IMHO Unity has good eye candy, but is less user-friendly.
Simple features such as being able to quickly place a temporary document sub directory launcher icon on the top panel make 10.10 more useful for us than 11.04 with the 'Classic Interface'. We have just tried Fedora 14 and like it, but do not see any compelling reason to switch from Ubuntu 10.10. However, we will try fedora 15 when it is released on May 25.
Likewise we will try the final release of Mint 11 Debian ver. when it is available.

dis-Unity will still be there, when using the 'classic' Gnome.

You will still take the performance hits, and other things.

Those that 'like' 11.04... I hope you are happy and continue to enjoy...

Those that don't like dis-Unity...

You are probably better off using 10.10... and getting the 'tweaking' done...

I didn't like dis-Unity...

I didn't like the experience with 11.04...AT ALL...

and am looking for a better distro, to what I do like...

I have been a long time Ubuntu user.

its not that unity sucks or is worse than gnome 2
its just that gnome shell is better

what I hate with unity is the lack of freedom, you can't choose to place things they way you like, they depotically choose to mimic apple aqua, that is precisly why I left apple.

I hate the idea of a top panel un-removable or not movable that is not suited when you got 2 huge display that make the eyes movement from one display to the other just a pain.

Now I saw many post saying there are choice at the bottom login screen mine is pure blank no metter how I setup the login screen thing in the conf-->system thing.

Unity was designed for tablets or phones or something, but not the desktop. Ubuntu was taking Linux to new levels of popularity and usability - then slammed it right the ***** ground. Good work. Fedora 15 + Gnome 3 for the foreseeable future.

Right ! Fedora 15 Gnome 3 tested and excellent . Fedora 13 Gbome 2 Excellent fully network compatible with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Gnome 2 also ! I expèct Ubuntu to go back to Gnome and distribute a Version with GNOME 3 . I agreed that trying out Unity is an experience but Gnome 3 is more realistic . I also tested Mandriva 10.02 KDE , not bad .

Thanks.
Unity is despicable.
How in hell could someone think it was a step forward.
I was on my way to KDE because of that. I thought about dropping linux and use just windows but programing in c/c++ in windows is horrible.

Thanks for the info. I missed that menu choice the first time around. I was ready to ditch this pos but after searching on 'horrible gnome' I figured something relevant would come up.

You have to wonder what these people were smoking when they came up with the latest release.

Over the years gnome has evolved into something quite beautiful and practical -- akin to XP which I probably won't give up until 2020 or so.

Thanks for the info.

I'm a college instructor and was trying to demonstrate how Windows permissions are ignored in other OS's like Linux. I downloaded the new Ubuntu Live disc and didn't test run it before class (I'd be using Ubuntu for years, no need to test run it....right?).

To my horror, while my students watched I could barely figure out how to navogate to the Windows partition due to Unity and its "hide everything by default" look and feel.

Ubuntu (and Linux in general) is a hands on type OS, so why would you hide all of the system tools? Where did the Applications menu go?! What about the places and system menus?!

In any case, at least now 11.04 is tolerable. Thanks!