Unity as kudzu

[billhedrick]

as you might know, there is a weed called Kudzu that basically takes over everything it touches. I was booting into all the options in 3.5 to see what they looked at, and my Gnome Classic is now unity. All the gnome options have the unity interface, this happened after I booted into unity to see if I still hated it. When I boot into any of the Gnomes, they look just like Unity and I need to know how to fix this... Luckily KDE, which is much better than I remember is immune. As is XCFE.

[ryanvade]

We all know that Unity is based on Gnome. So it is possible, although unlikely, that apt-get updated Gnome 2 (classic) to Unity. Like I said though, this is very unlikely. Very odd. No offense, but the User has to be a part of this somehow.

Anyway. The old Gnome 2 is available with gnome-panel package. Or you can try something like Mate or Consort. I do not believe that this was changed with 12.04. If you somehow upgraded to 13.04 that would explain the Unity thing.

[Xanayoshi]

Go in to compiz settings manager and make sure Unity is checked off.

If the problem persists, or you do not use Unity, I have a guide..

viewtopic.php?f=125&t=9116

That guide exists because of this.

[ryanvade]

Do you know why this is happening?

[Xanayoshi]

Best guess is there is a problem created with the Compiz Window Management in relation to Gnome Classic. For a straight up Gnome 3 install we are presented with Gnome 3, Gnome Classic/Fallback and Gnome Classic/Fallback-No Effects, which roughly means..Gnome Classic with Metacity, and Gnome Classic with Compiz. When Unity is added to the mix, there are some issues..Unity started life as basically Gnome 2 with a Compiz Unity add-on. So there in lies a dilemna, since Unity/Cinnamon/Mate needs Gnome. This does not seem to be getting better. As far as I know 3.8 is still incompatible with most of the Gnome based DE. This is causing problems everywhere. You can avoid this with XFCE, LXDE, KDE, E17, etc..but XFCE does have a dependency, that if not careful, will pull Gnome and all of it's blahh. Sucks because Gnome 3.4 Classic/Fallback on its own is extremely useful, and can be ran at around 100mb. Unfortunately, you have to drag Gnome (3) around with it. Hence, the Gnome 3 at sessions I imagine. Unity can be pulled from this mix, but not(apt-get remove unity). To get rid of Gnome 3 though, you will lose Classic.

[billhedrick]

Hey, I am not offended by the suggestion that it's an ID10T error,
Will try those suggestions, but as I said KDE is a LOT better than it used to be

[Xanayoshi]

Huh?..no, I have pictures and everything.

viewtopic.php?f=125&t=8920

Not user error exactly. In the beginning, I would re-install when this happened..then I thought..ehh...let's just get rid of Unity.