How to install GNOME 2 desktop environment on
Xubuntu / Substitute Xubuntu's XFCE desktop manager with GNOME
XFCE in
Xubuntu looks quite nice, the developers of
Xubuntu made it look and work really well.
Anyways XFCE was lacking many of the features that GNOME offers
(among which the most important one in that case was
creating
Icons on the desktop).
Even though creation of
XFCE icons on the desktop has ways
to be done, this is quite a complex process and its complete
un-interactive. Besides that I could not find a way to add programs
to XFce's main menus (as icons).
Therefore Xubuntu's Xfce is not suitable gui envorinment for Linux
novice who had no knowledge on Linux commands and stuffs.
On the other hand I've seen many users coming from Windows world to
Linux to have cope approximately well with GNOME.
Therefore I decided to
subsitute Xubuntu's XFCE with
GNOME
I used apt-get to
install GNOME desktop environment like
so:
root@xubuntu-desktop:~# apt-get install --yes
gnome-desktop-environment
...
Now simply logout from Xfce and on the GDM login screen I had to
choose GNOME Hence I used apt-get to install
GNOME desktop
environment on Xubuntu like so:
root@xubuntu-desktop:~# apt-get install --yes
gnome-desktop-environment
...
Now simply logout from Xfce and on the GDM login screen I had to
choose GNOME and I can use the way more user friendly and easy to
customize GNOME 2.