The Gnome 3.0 desktop (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

After much reluctance I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin on my office Desktop. It was rather an upgrade as I was using 11.10 the last release. Now upgrading to Precise from Natty is really easy but not so easy therefore I shall cover that in another post. Here I intend to share my experience with Unity, which was not happy. The problem I faced was that it was not easy to reach to the running apps. The unity icons simply did not respond. On several occasions, when I triad to run apt-get from the terminal, it refused with lock error ‘another version is running’. It was too much annoyance. I use Ubuntu only to avoid such silly ‘window type’ error messages. Hence I decided to switch to Gnome 3.4. It is fairly simple. Open terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Say yes to next question and it is done. Log out. Next time before logging click on that icon of gear next to your name and select “Gnome’. You would be logged on to Gnome3.

BTW, to shut down press alt key and suspend option shall change to shut down.

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