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Running Gnome Classic at all with Compiz Ubuntu Oneiric

Running Gnome Classic at all with Compiz Ubuntu Oneiric

In Oneiric 11.10, some users, if not most, have issues with getting the "GNOME Classic" session to run at all, being dropped to the "GNOME Classic (No effects)" session instead. The culprit for that is an entry in its session settings. This is pretty easy to fix, by just removing it; and judging from that those entry isn't included in the settings of the fallback session either, it shouldn't have any undesired side-effects. And I'll also show how to run it with Compiz instead of the default, Mutter.

Update 12/15/2011: Concerning bug report here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/885939

Fixing "GNOME Classic"

This change would affect all users, as it's system-wide, and it would also be reverted by an upgrade of the package "gnome-session-fallback". But as I don't want to leave you with a session option you can't use anyway, I think it's better than creating a custom session. And those package shouldn't be upgraded too often anyway.

1. Open "GNOME Classic"s session settings:


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