hello there!!I’m using suse 11.4 and I want to downdgrade gnome3 to gnome2.8!!! cause In gnome 3 I didn’t find any thing like system—>preference or system—>adminstration!!! And YaST,Install/remove applications and so on!!Gnome 3 compeletely sucking ma mind!!! So I want to go back to the old gnome that I’m so much familiar.:’( :’( So please help me.
Thanks.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:46:03 +0000, abmsadi iiuc wrote:
> hello there!!I’m using suse 11.4 and I want to downdgrade gnome3 to
> gnome2.8!!! cause In gnome 3 I didn’t find any thing like
> system—>preference or system—>adminstration!!! And
> YaST,Install/remove applications and so on!!Gnome 3 compeletely sucking
> ma mind!!! So I want to go back to the old gnome that I’m so much
> familiar.:’( :’( So please help me.
GNOME3 has a very different interface, and does take some getting used to.
You’ll find administrative tasks under the menu that displays when you
click your username (upper right-hand corner).
To get into YaST or other such tools, go to the ‘activities’ (upper left-
hand corner) and select “applications”. YaST should be in there.
To go back to GNOME 2, start YaST and remove the GNOME3 repository. Then
start a terminal, and run:
sudo zypper dup
And that should get you back to GNOME 2. You’ll want to review the
list of suggested changes, as any applications you have installed from
non-standard repositories may revert to the versions in the standard
repositories.
I did something similar to this myself when I started testing GNOME3, and
using zypper dup seemed the easiest way to switch back and forth.
Jim
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made of easy >:)
In application there isn’t any YaST there at all!!But in KDE4 there it is!! And by the way I’ve made this custom edition of opensuse from suse studio.so whould u plz tell me how to remove the repo of gnome3 n add gnome2??or if I only remove the repo of gnome3 and than just give the command sudo zypper dup is that work so for going back to gnome 2.8??
I have to say I second the decision to go back to Gnome 2! Thought I’d give Gnome 3 a try today and effectively lost the day. It may well be to do with the fact I have an Nvidia GeForce 5xxx card (but that’s like saying this car won’t start if you put a leather suitcase in the boot). CPU rammed up at 100%. When I finally did get the system monitor to load, instead of a little rogue widget hogging all the juice (what I was hoping to see), it said gnome-shell 97%… . Dropped the Gnome 3 repository , ran “zypper dup” in the console, rebooted and found that Evolution wouldn’t work. Luckily I’d set it to leave messages on the server … uninstalled Evolution and recreated the mail accounts…yawn…
I tried all the display manager / window manager combinations I could think of. Hopeless waste of time. I’ll have another look when Gnome 4 comes out. Sure, it looks a treat and I’m certainly ready to try out alternative workflows and layouts but I can’t afford to lose a day trying to get it to work. I’m sure it works fine on loads of other machines but there must still be a fair few AMD Athlon 64 bit boxes with Nvidia cards to make this a bit of an issue.
Hi
I’m running GNOME3.2.1 on 11.4 with a GTS8600 proprietary driver on my
X86_64 AMD 4400+ without any problems.
Which GNOME 3 repository did you use 3.0 or 3.2?
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I just went for the dummy 1-click option here
openSUSE:GNOME 3.0 - openSUSE
Looks like 3.0. I guess
Hi
Should have gone for 3.2 then via the ‘text upgrade’ 
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Thanks for that 
Just wondering if there’s a client I could bill for the time. 
I will give this another go, certainly, when my blood pressure has returned to non-lethal levels.
Thanks for the input.
Thanks for that Just wondering if there’s a client I could bill for the time.
I will give this another go, certainly, when my blood pressure has returned to non-lethal levels.
Thanks for the input.
Well, tried the the 3.2 text based install.
Positive is that Gnome 3.2 doesn’t go 100% on the CPU… it just doesn’t load. I get the Jazzy blueish background and then nothing…sooooooooo fed up. It’s actually not that important. I was curious. Gave it a go. Back to Gnome 2 we go.
Still no good. Tried text install with 3.2 … Gnome just won’t load…still, good that it’s not taking 100% of CPU
back to 2 we go. Such a royal waste of day.