Why don't you try installing MATE? There is a MATE repo available for Wheezy: 'deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main'
Just be sure to apt-get install the mate-archive-keyring package. I'm not sure if you've heard of MATE or not, but basically it's a fork of Gnome 2 developed by Linux Mint. It resembles Gnome 2 in almost all respects, except it uses GTK3 instead of GTK2. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Patrick Bartek <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > From: cletusjenkins <[email protected]> > > > > I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because > the > > nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version > of gnome. > > I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100 > android > > tablet instead of a powerful computer. > > > > I can't customize anything about the desktop. > > > > Everything is buried under layers and layers of menus and all the apps > are in > > jumbled lists. > > > > I installed several other desktops, icewm, lxde, kde, etc. I've never > really > > liked KDE, but it seems to have decided to go in much of the same > direction > > gnome has (and windows 8, so maybe just maybe someone at gnome should do > some > > serious thinking about that, if you find you are doing the same thing > microsoft > > is doing that should be a ). I like using LXDE and some of the other > alternative > > on older, low-power machines, but most still have a hodge-podge look that > > screams windows 95. Icewm was my favorite in the early 0x, but they lost > me when > > icepref disappeared. Anywhoo..... > > > > xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. > > Do what I did. I don't like GNOME 3 (or desktops "environments", in > general) either, but I do want a GUI. So, along with Wheezy, I just > installed a window manager, Openbox, and LXPanel, and I've got a lean, fast > GUI that breathes life into this aging machine of mine. > > > My old laptop (the one I'm writing this on) has squeeze with gnome > 2.30.2. > > Is there anyway to get an actual gnome *desktop* on wheezy sans all this > > metro-esque crap? > > > Maybe, when Wheezy goes stable, there'll be a backport of GNOME 2. Just a > thought since so many users hate 3. > > B > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
