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Before Ubuntu 17.10, lightdm was the preferred one. The Desktop interface has been tweaked (quite well) to ease the transition from Unity Desktop to Gnome Desktop.Īnother important element that has been replaced in Ubuntu 17.10 is the login manager. Since Ubuntu 17.10, Canonical has dropped Unity Desktop interface and has decided to use the Gnome Desktop environment. But… everyone has their own opinion (and I highly respect those opinions).Today, we will be discussing about Ubuntu 18.04 and login screen manager. Since Ubuntu 17.10, Canonical has modified the Ubuntu Desktop road map slightly. With the continued improvements seen in 13.04, I believe Unity has become one of the most efficient and user-friendly desktops available. I would, of course, highly recommend you give Unity another try. Give GNOME 3.8 (or GNOME Classic) a try and see if you don’t find a desktop that better suits your needs. Remember, one of Linux’s strong points has always been choice. You don’t have to avoid Ubuntu 13.04, just because you’re not a fan of Unity. You can now enjoy the old-fashioned, two-panel GNOME.

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Issue the command: sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback.

You should see something like GNOME Shell 3.8.1.īut if there are those that prefer the old GNOME, you can get your Classic GNOME on with a simple command. To test to make sure you have the latest version, open up a terminal window and issue the command gnome-shell –version.

Select GNOME at the login screen and log in.

When the installation completes, close the terminal and reboot the system.

When prompted, select the login manager of choice (LightDM is the default Unity manager and GDM is the GNOME default - either will work).

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Update and install with this command: s udo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop.Add the GNOME PPA repository with the command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3.Here are the steps for installing GNOME 3.8 on your Ubuntu desktop: If I’ve managed to tempt you enough to try, let’s install. Video playback is much smoother and animations are seamless and slick. Improved graphics rendering: You should find 3.8 to be a vast improvement over previous iterations of GNOME 3 in the way of graphics rendering.ownCloud support: Connect to your ownCloud account directly through the GNOME online accounts management tool.Privacy: There’s a new settings pane (in the Settings tool), where you can configure privacy and notification.

Message Tray accessibility: Click Super+M to open and close the message tray and click Super+N to expand a notification.Search optimization: From within the Search Settings pane (in the Settings tool), you can fine-tune search results.Docs: Is the default document viewer for GNOME and includes built-in support for Google Docs.With this tab you can more easily find the apps you frequently open (without having to clutter up your launcher with too many apps). Easier application launch: When you view the application overlay, you will notice a new tab at the bottom - Frequent/All ( Figure A, click to enlarge).Other features to 3.8 that have made improvements over previous iterations, are: The desktop also takes a much more minimalist approach (without losing functionality). Some might find that the built-in compositor, Mutter, is far smoother than that of Unity. It’s not even remotely difficult - but must be done through the command line.īut first… why GNOME? Isn’t GNOME 3 just a launcher away from being Unity? Yes and no. In this first entry, I’m going to illustrate how you can get the latest release of GNOME installed and running.

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For those people, I’m going to run a short series on installing other desktops, so you don’t have to avoid the Ubuntu experience. And though I find Unity one of the finest user interfaces available, there are those that haven’t had the same experience.

Ubuntu 13.04 has recently hit and, from my perspective, it’s a “raring” hit.

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