Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

[Mika Suomalainen <mika.henrik.mainio@hotmail.com>]

On 27.04.2012 10:56, Miles Bader wrote:
> James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> writes:
>> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at
>> all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully?
> 
> Hmm, can't you just run it in "compability" mode or whatever it's
> called...?  [if you want to avoid gnome-shell... I don't see much
> obvious difference between gnome 2 and gnome 3 otherwise]

It's called as "fallback mode".

> My impression was that you could somehow force that from the login
> screen (but I've never tried so I dunno).

Yes you can. Change "GNOME" to "Classical Gnome" in desktop environment
menu.

> -miles
> 


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