Old Gnome

moosie · 2011-10-19 02:10:13

I just installed arch on my new laptop, is there anyway to use the old gnome?

karol · 2011-10-19 02:16:15

Which one do you mean? Gnome 2 or Gnome 3?

moosie · 2011-10-19 02:28:34

gnome 2 i'm currently using gnome 3.2 i think

fsckd · 2011-10-19 02:30:18

Search the forums for Mate.

fsckd · 2011-10-19 02:33:00

You meant to reply but reported accidentally (I know, the buttons are too close together),

moosie wrote:

Sure thing I don't know i browsed the first page don't know why I didn't search, i'll be sure to post my results or lack of results...

moosie · 2011-10-19 03:00:30

Wow Sorry, anyways all i found was the mate fork: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162 but is there no way to get the official one?

warenoso · 2011-10-19 03:34:17

Not officially supported in arch

axel668 · 2011-10-19 06:35:07

Arch always has the latest stable version, so mate is your closest guess ...
if you want something more official, you can try XFCE, think it's similar enough

Permezae · 2011-10-19 10:58:42

axel668 wrote:

if you want something more official, you can try XFCE, think it's similar enough

I agree. I've been a long time Gnome user and I switched to XFCE with the release of Gnome 3. Loving XFCE .

Mr.Elendig · 2011-10-19 14:40:30

moosie wrote:

Wow Sorry, anyways all i found was the mate fork: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162 but is there no way to get the official one?

Gnome 2.x have been dropped by upstream. You really don't want to use it.

possiblefool · 2011-10-19 16:06:47

Despite it being dropped, couldnt you just roll your own, (this is arch after all!) using Compiz, either as a stand alone or as the wm for LXDE or XFCE? That always seemed to be the main draw of gnome IMO anyway.
Unless Im missing something compiz+nautilus plus a few other bits n bobs that you can pic n choose (or get from the affore mentioned DE's) and you've essentually got yourself gnome 2 with Arch support. Chuck footprint or 2 in there, they'll be none the wiser!

moosie · 2011-10-20 02:10:40

I'm looking into trying out other environments, I have ruled out kde so far and I'm planning on trying xfce, lxde, enlightenment, or possibly not use an environment and try openbox. Thanks for the help guys and any advice would be appreciated!

Mr.Elendig · 2011-10-20 11:18:33

possiblefool wrote:

Despite it being dropped, couldnt you just roll your own, (this is arch after all!) using Compiz, either as a stand alone or as the wm for LXDE or XFCE? That always seemed to be the main draw of gnome IMO anyway.
Unless Im missing something compiz+nautilus plus a few other bits n bobs that you can pic n choose (or get from the affore mentioned DE's) and you've essentually got yourself gnome 2 with Arch support. Chuck footprint or 2 in there, they'll be none the wiser!

Sure, if you don't mind not having any bug/security fixes, improvements, and that you have to keep track of and rebuild whenever some of the libs it requires is updated etc.

It will be a heck of a lot of work. (Which is why I suspect that the Mate project will die in the not to distant future too)

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Old Gnome

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