Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:56:16PM +0900, 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]
>
> My impression was that you could somehow force that from the login
> screen (but I've never tried so I dunno).
The Debian GNOME team are offering the "fallback" mode as "GNOME classic"
from GDM - however, it is pretty different to GNOME2 IMHO, and upstream
have said that it's a stop-gap so will be unsupported at some time in
the future. I'd be surprised if it was in wheezy+1.
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Jon Dowland
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