How to use old gnome with the latest ubuntu

[galfly]

Oh, thanks. I'd rather avoid Win Vista/7/8 kinda look on my desktop as well as OSx, so I don't mind the absence of applets at all!

apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

worked like a charm! Thanks a lot!

m@ya, what I meant by that was you can not add your own applets and only comes with the basic applets needed for proper usefulness of the desktop. So applets like Eyes or Weather are not present.

[confused57]

You might want to check out this thread by Kansasnoob for classic gnome in Precise:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370

[Number3124]

Hey, I actually moved to Debian for a while after Unity debuted. I moved back because Debian was too esoteric and because the MATE fork was finished. It's pretty good, and I'm using it right now.

Also, if you're going with the Fallback you should mark the thread solved.

[c2tarun]

Yes, I saw that. I tried Cinnamon before. I immediately thought about KDE when you suggested other trad desktop env

I think you are looking for this tutorial.

You can use screenlets for adding desktop widgets.

confused57 shared same link, sorry for double post.