Some people (me) would prefer the straight GNOME experience as opposed to the Unity style desktop offered in Ubuntu 17.10.
How can I get the standard GNOME desktop and interface?
Some people (me) would prefer the straight GNOME experience as opposed to the Unity style desktop offered in Ubuntu 17.10.
How can I get the standard GNOME desktop and interface?
There are two methods to easily gain a more GNOME like experience in Ubuntu 17.10.
The first method is to run the program
sudo apt install gnome-session
This will undo many of the features that have been added to GNOME, such as the always-on dock, but will leave the Ubuntu color scheme.
The second method is to execute the command
sudo apt install vanilla-gnome-desktop
This will install the GNOME themes as expected from prior versions of Ubuntu GNOME, change the Plymouth splash screens, and install several common GNOME utilities.
gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock
, but that (and quite a bit of other stuff) is removed or disabled by the vanilla-gnome-desktop
package
Oct 13, 2017 at 12:48
vanilla-gnome-desktop
Oct 13, 2017 at 15:01
If you want full GNOME, you can install it by using:
sudo apt install gnome
This package installs around 293 packages/utilities and on the other hand vanilla-gnome-desktop
package installs around 170 packages/utilities which in my opinion aren't required just to experience Vanilla GNOME. You can install a 'minimal' version of vanilla GNOME which need only 4 new packages using:
sudo apt install ubuntu-gnome-desktop
It doesn't include additional packages (which many of times are useless) and GNOME plymouth but you can experience vanilla GNOME without using much space.
ubuntu-gnome-desktop
feels more like Unity, which had originally caused me problems with one of my laptops.
Jan 29, 2019 at 2:41
ubuntu-desktop
in 18.04+ is Unity like GNOME.