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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

Gnome Classic, as used below refers to the classic Gnome 2 interface.
Gnome Fallback is a Gnome 3 interface that appears similar to the
classic Gnome 2 interface. You can read more at:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/83351/which-is-correct-gnome-classic-or-gnome-fallback

On 26/04/12 09:52, Hank Smith wrote:
> then what is gnome classic then?
> what is the difference between the 2?
> On 4/26/2012 7:44 AM, 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.  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
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> > *From:*orca-list-bounces gnome org
> > <mailto: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 <mailto: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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