Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Ubuntu Oneiric GUI Options Gnome Shell Gnome Fallback and XFCE

Ubuntu Oneiric GUI Options Gnome Shell Gnome Fallback and XFCE


Ubuntu Oneiric ships with Unity 3D and Unity 2D by default. For those who don't have any love for Unity but they still love Ubuntu, they have got a few more options.

Gnome Shell

Aside from all the controversies, you should give it a try at least. They call it as an innovation and the future of desktop computing, lets see.


Installing Gnome Shell in older Ubuntu versions like Natty and Lucid always led to problems as Gnome Shell is based on Gnome 3 and GTK+ 3, whereas the older Ubuntu versions are based on Gnome 2 and GTK+ 2. But with Oneiric now being based on Gnome 3, Gnome Shell runs smooth. It is in the official repositories, so either search the Software Center for 'Gnome Shell' or get to a Terminal and run:

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