Use gnome-shell in Ubuntu Studio (or Ubuntu Studio functionality in vanilla Ubuntu)
I see two and a half paths:
- Install Ubuntu GNOME (images, wiki), then install the
ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins linux-lowlatency
metapackages - Install UbuntuStudio (web), then install the
gnome-shell gnome-session
metapackages - Install Ubuntu, then install the
ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins
andgnome-shell gnome-session
metapackages
I suggest 1 (Ubuntu GNOME), here is why:
- 3 (Ubuntu) is the easiest to eliminate because it represents one more setup step for you, and one more set of cruft you'll want to avoid. You know you want audio stuff, and you know you want Shell. Options 1 and 2 are each only one step away, while option 3 is two steps away, let's forget about it and the cruft it brings.
- Then deciding between 1 (Ubuntu GNOME) and 2 (UbuntuStudio) is also easy in your case, because you want Shell and audio stuff. Well,
- If you install UbuntuStudio, you will end up with XFCE, which you don't want
- Just adding the
ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins linux-lowlatency
metapackages will setup your lowlatency environment the same way than through a Studio install, without the additional Studio cruft (XFCE, additional video/etc. packages)
Finally, regarding the login manager, with Ubuntu GNOME you'll end up with GDM, which (provided you like GNOME Shell) will be fine for you (simple, efficient) and is not better or worse than LightDM.
To wrap up:
- Install Ubuntu GNOME (images, wiki)
- If you want to get the latest-and-greatest GNOME 3.8 hotness, add the official GNOME3 team PPA :
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
, and do asudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
.
Note: Do not add thestaging
PPA, it is for developers and will make your environment unstable. - Install the
ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins linux-lowlatency
metapackages - Jam :)
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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krlmlr over 1 year
Problem
I am thinking about installing Ubuntu Studio on my new laptop, basically because Jack coexists with PulseAudio "out of the box" which I have found impossible to achieve in a previous installation. Also, it uses the low-latency kernel by default. However, I'd also like to keep using Gnome shell.
Hardware: Lenovo T430.
Own attempts
I have tried
apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-session
but this brings along more than 100 extra packages, some of which I am not sure I really need. In addition, it asks if gdm should be the default display manager (instead of lightdm), however, according to Wikipedia, the former is the newer and better alternative. After keeping LightDM and changing the greeter to use the Unity greeter (the default greeter doesn't seem to recognize the new session types), I can log in to Unity but not to the good old Gnome shell.
This is just a brief summary of several hours of reinstalling Ubuntu Studio and trying to make things work.
Question
What is the most robust path to achieve the desired result -- an installation with a low-latency kernel and working Jack, with Gnome shell?
Install Ubuntu Studio + ???, how to configure?
Install vanilla Ubuntu, add some packages from Ubuntu Studio, how to configure RT+Jack?
???
Related
This related question suggests installing
ubuntu-desktop
, but for 12.04. This answer points to an instruction to add Ubuntu Studio features to vanilla Ubuntu. I haven't yet tried either of these options. -
krlmlr about 11 yearsI don't know what I did wrong then when installing Jack -- with your instructions (and those provided by the Ubuntu Studio wiki, specifically the
adduser $SUDO_USER audio
part) everything worked out of the box, like a charm. Thanks a lot! -
krlmlr about 11 yearsNote also that
lightdm
can be installed and activated without extra packages usingapt-get install --no-install-recommends lightdm unity-greeter
. (Without--no-install-recommends
, just the same 100+ packages, includingunity
, are added. See also askubuntu.com/q/138297/30266.)gdm
still seems to be required, though: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1048302 -
Ronan Jouchet about 11 yearsGlad it works for you now :) . Regarding
lightdm
, I'm sure it can be added, but I thought that since you liked the GNOME approach with Shell, you might have liked it too withgdm
. Iflightdm
is your thing, go ahead and use it! -
krlmlr about 11 yearsNo, I'm just puzzled by Ubuntu's announcement to eventually replace GDM by LightDM altogether.
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Ronan Jouchet about 11 years@krlmlr reasons to replace GDM with LightDM are documented on the 'LightDM for Display Management' blueprint