Switching from Unity 7 to GNOME

[Olivier Tilloy]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Till Kamppeter
<till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Olivier, thank you very much for your help, but, unfortunately, it did not
> work. See below.
>
> On 04/30/2017 06:35 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Till Kamppeter
>> <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have switched from Yakkety to Zesty right after the release and this
>>> replaced my very stable Unity 7 by Unity 8. After the second crash of my
>>> desktop (required a system reboot) I switched over to GNOME.
>>
>>
>> Do you mean that the unity7 entry disappeared from the login options,
>> or that the default changed to unity8? Either way, that sounds like a
>> bug, unity8 was never meant to become default or replace unity7
>> altogether in zesty.
>>
>
> After logging in for the first time after booting the updated machine, I got
> a desktop which looks like the old one. I was not sure whether it was Unity
> 7 or Unity 8 using the old configuration of my Unity 7 desktop. So I did
>
> dpkg -l | grep unity
>
> and saw that most packages have an 8.x version number. This made me assuming
> that I am under Unity 8.

unity7 and unity8 can coexist, so this is not meaningful.


>>> To do so I installed "gnome-session", then logged out, clicked on the
>>> Ubuntu
>>> logo near the user name, and selected GNOME and logged in again, getting
>>> rewarded with a shiny GNOME desktop.
>>>
>>> Note that "GNOME with Wayland" does not work for me. I simply get a black
>>> screen (I have a 2nd-gen Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Intel GPU).
>>
>>
>> Try removing unity8-desktop-session. That did the trick for me.
>>
>
> I tried it now and the result was that I could not log in into any desktop
> any more. I had to go to a text console and install it again. Then logging
> in into the desktops worked again.
>
> Without unity8-desktop-session after selecting any desktop (Ubuntu default,
> GNOME, GNOME/Wayland) and then entering the password I got a black screen
> with an error message (for a second or so, too fast to read the error
> message) and then got back to the login screen.
>
> Switching desktops also causes a problem with HiDPI screens (mine is QHD
> 2560x1440). The magnification of the text changes and I end up with very
> small text. I have to go to the Ubuntu default (aka Unity 7), call the
> System Settings there, choose the Displays section and set the zoom there to
> 2.0. This zoom is missing in the Display section of the GNOME System
> Settings. And the "Large Text" in Universal Accessibility of GNOME's System
> Settings zooms too much, it would need a slider to adjust the zoom factor.
>
>>
>>> I tried the same on my Artful VM (QEMU), but there the LightDM has no
>>> Ubuntu
>>> logo at the user name. How do I switch desktops there?
>>>
>
> Anyone could help me with this one?
>
>    Till
>