Choices, choices ...
Will Gnome 3.8 work with earlier versions of Ubuntu, specifically 12.04 LTS??If so, I'll give it a try.
View ArticleI guess you could also do this without the command line
Even when I am a heavy command line user (I come from old Unix and have used MS-DOS also), I think that you can do everything you explain without using the command line (however, i think it is harder...
View ArticleIt seems so...
The instructions above will leave you with Gnome 3.4 on Ubuntu 12.04, however, a little googling yelded these pages with instructions to install Gnome 3.8 on Ubuntu...
View ArticleLooks to be worthwhile trying
el.baby, thanks for your reply. I'll try it.I'm not worried by the command line (or the CLI, Command Line Interpreter as MS called it). The first OS I learnt was RT-11 on a PDP11/10 in 1973. After that...
View ArticleDid not work
Well that didn't work so well!!I have Ubuntu 12.10 running and I followed steps 1 to 7 of the installation instructions above, and I chose LightDM as the login manager.But after I rebooted I did not...
View ArticleStarted, but crashed
Your description indicates that Gnome Shell did start up, but after a couple of seconds it crashed. You could look in the log files in '/var/log' for a clue as to what happened... (You could also...
View ArticleThe gnome 3.8 install totally screwed up
my window manager selection.There isnt any any more, andi cant back out of this change.Huge bummer!
View Articleone step forwards and two steps back
In an attempt to get the Gnome 3.8 desktop working I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 from 12.10 (bad decision, but more on that later).After upgrading to 13.04, still no login manager comes up, I just get the...
View ArticleRe-installation
There's no (easy) downgrade path, unfortunately. You could try uninstalling, then re-installing your desktop manager first:, then log in to get a command line, then sudo apt-get remove...
View ArticleCorrection for defective blog page:
Press Ctrl + Alt + F1, then log in to get a command line ...
View ArticleProcedure for getting rid of Unity seems to be untested
It didn't work for me either. The ideal replacement for Unity is Xfce. I have just replaced my crippled Ubuntu with Xubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and so far it seems likes a usable Desktop graphical interface...
View ArticleSteps sideways
Brainstorms thanks for your help but ... Well ... this is driving me crazy.I started Ubuntu (13.04) and issued Ctl-Alt-F1 to get a command line.The prompt asked me to log in, so I lgged in with my...
View ArticleSteps sideways
Correction from me.I have a typo.I did enter the commandsudo apt-get autoremove ...where I described it.
View ArticleClassic Gnome
is unachievable not because Canonical "abandoned it" for Unity; it's because the Gnome Team abandoned it and basically told the Linux world, "Move on to Gnome 3 or write your own" -- which Canonical...
View ArticleKeep going
So at this point you appear to have Gnome removed, leaving Unity. Now repeat the installation procedure that Jack provided in the article.I actually use these commands:sudo add-apt-repository...
View ArticleHmmm. This does not quite work.
After installing GNOME3 I did get some aspects of the gnome interface, but I think the video driver was a little messed up and some UI features of gnome didn't work as a result. Some systems windows...
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