desktop display manager

[Liam Proven]

On 04/08/2025 4:22 pm, bruce wrote:
> Looking over ubuntu/display managers. Used to have centos, which was
> old gnome. The basic ui/look was a top horizontal menu of a few items.
> It also had a left side/dropdown of sub menu items. At the same time,
> it had a bottom list of icons for the "apps" that were minimized. As
> well as the section of the 'child desktops" a user creates. 


You mean GNOME 2?

If you liked that, then MATE is the obvious choice. MATE is a fork and 
continuation of GNOME 2.


> And of
> course, the bottom menu could be moved to one of the sides..

I'm confused by your choice of words. These aren't menus. They're 
panels. Not the same.

Anyway. Sounds like GNOME 2 from about 15+  years ago.

If you want _the same_ then install Ubuntu MATE.

If you want cosmetically similar and you've installed Ubuntu with 
GNOME already, then just install the Flashback session:

````
sudo apt install gnome-session-flashback
````

Then pick it from the login screen. Job done.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/02/gnome-classic-ubuntu/

> In researching ubuntu display managers, 

These are not display managers. That is a different thing.

You are discussing desktops. That's why you can't find any screenshots: 
you are searching for an entirely different tool. The "Display Manager" 
on a Unix machine is the program that displays a graphical login screen, 
lets you pick a username, enter a password, and log in.



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