[ale] How do I NOT use Unity and DO use Gnome 2 in Ubuntu 11.x?

[David Tomaschik]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well, the subject says it.  How do I NOT use Unity and DO use Gnome 2 in
> Ubuntu 11.x?  Michael T. has almost convinced me to hit the Update
> button on my old Ubuntu 10.04 based on comments in the "AARG!  Manual
> software updates, Sun Java, LibreOffice, help" thread.  Should I take
> the plunge, and update twice to 11.04, I'll be faced with running the
> Unity UI.  I tried it once before and its lifespan on my system was
> about 30 minutes.  So, if I go down this road, and update and keep 11.04
> on the system, and hate Unity yet again, how do I banish it permanently
> and use Gnome 2 on the newer version of Ubuntu.  I don't know anything
> about Gnome 3, but my objective is to get an up to date system, not to
> change everything I've finally got working like I like it.  PS, I don't
> want to have to specify the UI every time I login.  PPS, I don't have
> the system upgraded yet, so I cannot try instructions you give yet.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron

11.04 can probably (IIRC) run Gnome 2 just fine, just select it once
from the GDM greeter, and your preference should be remembered.

All support for Gnome 2 has been dropped from Ubuntu as of 11.10.  GTK
and all supporting components have been bumped to their GTK/Gnome 3
versions.

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