Disable Unity and Use GNOME on Ubuntu 12.04

[sokmesa]

Can anyone help me how to complete remove Unity for ubuntu 12.04.
Sorry if it disturb the unity fan but I am not so happy with Unity and I really want to use GNOME.

Thank for your understanding,

[kansasnoob]

I made some notes about using the Gnome classic (no effects) session here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370

But I'm not sure if that's what you want or not :)

[rybnik]

but do you want gnome 2 (i.e. classic) or gnome 3?

[rybnik]

Yeah, I agree with thr OP. Unity is awful and way too similar to Mac.

[rybnik]

^as with gnome 3

[tartalo]

Someone posted this in another thread, it seems what you need:
http://linux-software-news-tutorials.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/totally-remove-unity-from-ubuntu-1204.html

[kansasnoob]

Someone posted this in another thread, it seems what you need:
http://linux-software-news-tutorials.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/totally-remove-unity-from-ubuntu-1204.html

But totally removing unity can create problems:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12243513#post12243513

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2057040

No need at all to remove Unity to use the fallback session!

In Oneiric this works:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1886799

In Precise this works:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370

[rybnik]

If the OP is only concerned with the Gnome desktop and doesn't care about gnome-specific applications, and assuming he doesn't want Gnome 3 which is very similar to Unity anyway, I would think that the fallback command is the best way to approach this:

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

[penreturns]

sudo apt-get install gnome-shellyou will get both gnome, and gnome classic

[d.atanasov]

Hey I have nice preposition for you. There is Linux Mint 13 Maya with Mate Desktop. This is just Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 3 and the old look. for me is good approximation of what you want. Check it here http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2031 (http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2031)

I hope it will be good for you :)

cheers

[mpmistr]

Can anyone help me how to complete remove Unity for ubuntu 12.04.
Sorry if it disturb the unity fan but I am not so happy with Unity and I really want to use GNOME.

Thank for your understanding,

The Gnome Shell Remix distro is actually not bad at all and it's been fairly stable for me. Probably your best bet for Gnome + Ubuntu w/o Unity.