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How do I use the GNOME Panel in Unity?
How to revert to GNOME Classic?
Is it possible to keep GNOME 2 in 11.10?

I want Gnome-panel in my ubuntu 11.10 to put netspeed applet in that panel.

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The old Gnome Panel cannot be used in Gnome 3, which 11.10 uses. – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Oct 14 '11 at 9:08
A good answer can be found at How to Revert to Gnome-Classic – Grumbel Oct 14 '11 at 15:38
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You cannot use Gnome2 in Ubuntu 11.10, at least not easily, however there is still a gnome-panel that can be installed with:

apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

This session, which has to be selected at the login screen then looks somewhat like Gnome2. However it behaves a bit different:

  • you cannot manually position icons and applets, you are limited to left, right, center positions
  • you have to Alt-rightclick to get the regular rightclick menu, which can be quite confusing
  • the system menu is gone, stuff there is now in your username menu on the right
  • if you move the top-menu out of the way, there is a Nautilus menu hiding under it (bug?!)

Another alternative is to not use Gnome3 at all and switch to XFCE4, which looks and feels very similar to Gnome2. Gnome applets can however not be used without a wrapper called xfce4-xfapplet-plugin, but it might be the better long term alternative, as at the moment it is not clear of long the fallback thing will be maintained and it's not behaving all that great to begin with.

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