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[ubuntu] Make Gnome look like Unity

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Make Gnome look like Unity Hello All, On my previous installation of Ubuntu 12.04 I was using the gnome classic desktop(no effects), but it looked and functioned just like unity 2d. I would use unity 2d but the video playback is choppy in full screen, this is an older laptop, gnome no effects does not have this issue. Ive tried to set the startup applications to include the unity launcher and unity panel, but it doesnt work. However, the launcher and panel do work when activated via alt+f2. Ive installed gnome tweak but have yet to find the setting to make gnome no effects look and, more (Hardware)

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I am trying to stop using unity and make awesome my default display manager while still having gnome as my default desktop environment. I am following the instructions at this page.

When I first got my laptop, Unity 3D worked fine. Then, suddenly, it stopped. Then, regardless of which desktop environment I chose, it booted Unity 2D. I tried installing my ATI/AMD graphics drivers, and only the non-post-release on installs. That doesn't even fix the issue.

Assuming it was an issue with Unity, I installed Gnome 3. To my surprise, the same issue occurred again!

12.10 - quite interesting! 30 weeks 1 day ago

I have one partition with Ubuntu 12.10 made lean. It is the updated/upgraded Beta 2. I played with Unity for sometime on that. Unity actually make me little tired.

Downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 and installed Gnome-shell 3.6.1 from Ubuntu repos and uninstalled Unity. This Gnome 3 is the base of Unity anyway, I only needed the Gnome-shell. It worked much better than Unity.

I've been using unity for a while, and just switched to gnome. (Gnome 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.10)

I've liked it a lot, but it's missing one key feature (in my mind). In Unity you can use the super button with a number key to open an app on the launcher. For example: Chromium is my second app on the unity launcher, so I can press super-2 to launch it.

Is there any way to do this in Gnome?

login to gnome-session is broken 40 weeks 21 hours ago

When I come to the ubuntu 12.04 lightdm login screen, I get several options for logging into desktop environments.

There is Unity and gnome and gnome-classic etc...

When I select unity, it logs me into Unity and

When I select gnome, it logs me into UNITY O_o

I also notice that even after selecting the gnome3 session , the icon on the login box is the same as the unity icon.

Hi there,

I just installed the xen hypervisor 4.1-amd64 for ubuntu 11.10. I rebooted into the xen-kernel and tried to start Unity or Gnome 3D but always no top-panel was shown and the GUI was completely unusable.. I had to use unity 2D or Gnome classic..

Why is that? (I am new to this stuff)

Thx

Michael

Is it possible to install GNOME 3 and switch between GNOME and Unity?

If I run sudo apt-get install gnome3 will it remove unity, or break it?

I wanted to make sure, before I install GNOME.

My goal is to try out GNOME, without removing Unity. Or just to be able to switch between them. I've heard some of my friends talk about it should be possible at login screen?

I am trying to set up GNOME Classic (on Ubuntu 12.04.1) to be my default desktop, I can install it with out issue and I know how to change to it at the login screen.

The problem I have is when I reboot, the login screen defaults back to Unity for login, is there away to set GNOME Classic to be the default (without removing unity)?

I have installed and configuring as follows but it always default

Hello ubuntuforums, I recently installed ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop, I started out with ubuntu 10.04 so gnome classic was the desktop environment of my choice, I dislike unity and gnome 3 isn't my cup of tea so to say.

After I installed a package called gnome-panel to enable gnome classic I went on to try to get my eyefinity setup to work, without success.