austerus
July 11th, 2011, 10:16 AM
Hello everyone,
I have recently installed Natty Narwhal and all seems fine and dandy but I already miss Gnome. Since Gnome 3 exists and I would like to try it, I want to ask: does anyone have a safe way of installing Gnome 3 with the gnome shell? I know that with Unity I can choose Ubuntu Classic login to use Gnome 2 with the Unity theme but that's not what I'm looking for.
I saw several tentative discussions about Gnome3 but no definitive conclusion regarding Gnome 3 on Natty.
I have tried to install Gnome 3 myself, by adding the ppa repository, doing a full update and then install gnome3 but the result was this:
after restarting, I got a Gnome option for login, but if I chose it then the login password box became a simple input box (no graphical elements as if all were stripped away) and even after a correct login the system would hang before I was sent back to login without any possibility to change the session type.
Could someone help? Thanks!
PS: with my default installation, the compiz config manager was missing from system settings and running 'ccsm' said that it wasn't installed. Trying to install compiz resulted in a message saying it is installed but trying to install ccsm result in a message saying it cannot be installed. Has this happened to anyone?
I have recently installed Natty Narwhal and all seems fine and dandy but I already miss Gnome. Since Gnome 3 exists and I would like to try it, I want to ask: does anyone have a safe way of installing Gnome 3 with the gnome shell? I know that with Unity I can choose Ubuntu Classic login to use Gnome 2 with the Unity theme but that's not what I'm looking for.
I saw several tentative discussions about Gnome3 but no definitive conclusion regarding Gnome 3 on Natty.
I have tried to install Gnome 3 myself, by adding the ppa repository, doing a full update and then install gnome3 but the result was this:
after restarting, I got a Gnome option for login, but if I chose it then the login password box became a simple input box (no graphical elements as if all were stripped away) and even after a correct login the system would hang before I was sent back to login without any possibility to change the session type.
Could someone help? Thanks!
PS: with my default installation, the compiz config manager was missing from system settings and running 'ccsm' said that it wasn't installed. Trying to install compiz resulted in a message saying it is installed but trying to install ccsm result in a message saying it cannot be installed. Has this happened to anyone?