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Charles Green
Asked: 2017-10-14 04:31:03 +0800 CST

How do I get a vanilla GNOME after Ubuntu 17.04?

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Some people (me) would prefer the straight GNOME experience as opposed to the Unity style desktop offered in Ubuntu 17.10.

How can I get the standard GNOME desktop and interface?

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  1. Best Answer

    There are two methods to easily gain a more GNOME like experience in Ubuntu 17.10.

    The first method is to run the program

    sudo apt install gnome-session

    This will undo many of the features that have been added to GNOME, such as the always-on dock, but will leave the Ubuntu color scheme.

    The second method is to execute the command

    sudo apt install vanilla-gnome-desktop

    This will install the GNOME themes as expected from prior versions of Ubuntu GNOME, change the Plymouth splash screens, and install several common GNOME utilities.

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  2. If you want full GNOME, you can install it by using:

    sudo apt install gnome

    This package installs around 293 packages/utilities and on the other hand vanilla-gnome-desktop package installs around 170 packages/utilities which in my opinion aren't required just to experience Vanilla GNOME. You can install a 'minimal' version of vanilla GNOME which need only 4 new packages using:

    sudo apt install ubuntu-gnome-desktop

    It doesn't include additional packages (which many of times are useless) and GNOME plymouth but you can experience vanilla GNOME without using much space.

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