Am 2011-11-26 21:07, schrieb walt: > The new gnome-shell is the controversial piece of gnome3 and (so far) > I find it counterproductive. > > I googled how to disable the gnome-shell and get my gnome-panel back, > along with the panel applets that I refuse to give up. (The gnome- > shell replaces the gnome-panel, so there is nowhere to run the old > applets.) > > If you want to disable gnome-shell you can do it with the System Info > function in System Settings. Click the Graphics icon and enable the > gnome-fallback setting to disable gnome-shell. Ah, much better :)
Let me get this straight: if I want to somehow stay in the world of gnome-2.32 (panels, desktop, etc) I could simply avoid masking any of the new stuff and use the mentioned gnome-fallback-setting? I also hesitate to leave my comfort zone ... ;-) (and I am on ~amd64 as well). Thanks, Stefan