Hi Victor
On 14/07/14 15:48, Victor Churchill wrote:
I recently did a Debian istalll onto a machine which had previously been struggling with Ubuntu. lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy) Release: 7.5 Codename: wheezy I have an older machine which I installed Debian onto a while ago, running 6.0.7 squeeze. For both installations I don't believe I did anything out of the ordinary. On the Squeeze machine I have a 'nice', useable desktop with familiar panel and menus (1). On the Wheezy I have something that looks more like the new Ubuntu that I was running away from, when I log in with a 'Gnome Classic' desktop (2). When I log in with regular 'Gnome' session selected it's abominable (3,4). Is there something I need to do to get a good old Gnome 2-ish desktop like I have on Squeeze?
Wheezy went to Gnome 3. XFCE is pretty close in appearance to Gnome 2 and can be installed instead of Gnome (advanced install options if I remember correctly). I migrated all my machines to XFCE when Wheezy came along. It's lean and quick.
Cheers Tim
1: Squeeze desktop http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/SqueezeDesktop_zps0970bde2.png.html 2. Wheezy 'Classic' http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/WheezyDesktop1_zpsf7cc4643.png.html 3. Wheezy "Gnome" with illegible panel - Radio Gnome Invisible B-( http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/Screenshotfrom2014-07-09183526_zps64093321.png.html 4. What I got on a "Gnome" session screenshot when all I could see was plain blue http://s1160.photobucket.com/user/johnvictoredington/media/Screenshotfrom2014-07-09183649_zps0685cfb2.png.html
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