Apr 27, 2012

[Release] Ubuntu 12.04, Making it look classic.

Finally, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS codenamed Precise Pangolin has been released.

I downloaded and intalled it. My first impression, I hated it... because it had unity as its default environment.. unity truly sucks.

I tried to install good old gnome.. but it was not possible now. So, I installed gnome-session-fallback to give it classic gnome look. Here are the steps:

1) Install gnome-session-fallback

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

2) Install myunity

sudo apt-get install myunity

3) Logout and choose gnome classic as your desktop environment. You can choose it  .



Note: The above picture doesnt belong to me. I just searched and found in googleimages.

So, select GNOME Classic or GNOME Classic (No Effects), and login.

4) After that start myunity. I used terminal to start it.


Change H Desktop to 4 and V Desktop to 0 as in the image above, it will make your workspace switcher look like good old one, all in a single row.

After this, I am loving this release even though it is a bit slow. Till now I was stuck with 10.04