Fallback to Gnome classic desktop Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I'm using Ubuntu for a while and experienced many bugs in Unity and also it kills productivity. I recently checked BackTrackR3 release which is built on Gnome2.3. But, unfortunately that is available only with Ubuntu 10.04 which has got its support period over.

So, Can I able to switch back to Gnome 2.32 as shown in the figure below from Ubuntu 14.04?

If so, which is the best flavor I can download? Ubuntu Unity or Ubuntu Gnome?

Solution 1

I've found gnome-flashback-session which provides both Compiz and Metacity environment. Installation guide is here. You can see the screenshot below:

Solution 2

I would go with Ubuntu Gnome, it has the Gnome 3 shell and the fallback (the old one). Also you can install Matte, Cinnamon, etc.

Comments

[nilsonneto]

Isnt this the same as this? askubuntu.com/questions/58172/…

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Heh. It's interesting that you use my screenshot that way. It was intended to demonstrate that the Gnome Panel 3 desktop is almost identical to the Gnome 2 desktop. The screenshot is from Ubuntu 11.10 and is the Gnome 3 version of the traditional desktop.

[Gowtham]

ha ha lol. I wanted to show an environment like gnome 2 and I don't had one - so I googled and got this image.

[Gowtham]

Can I switch it back to the environment as like Gnome 2.32?

[Arda]

@Gowtham Try Mate instead if you want Gnome2 feel. It's a fork for Gnome2 that runs on newer kernels. Check here.

[LnxSlck]

YEs, i would go with Mate like Arda said.

[Brian Z]

I installed gnome-session-flashback, but I don't see any options on the login screen :(

[Gowtham]

There will an icon next to your password field. Click that and you'll get a list of installed DE's

[Brian Z]

Right... but the Ubuntu/Gnome logo was just completely missing from the login screen. Fortunately I got it to appear, by installing gnome-panel (apparently it was not included as a dependency of gnome-fallback-session).