desktop display manager

[bruce]

Hey liam.

thanks, you're right about terms.

I was able to get the basic gnome-classic, as well as flashback to test.

The "flashback" is roughly what I recall old centos was.  This can work.

However, I'm looking at making a few mods in the menus, as well as the
top panel.

So, has anyone on the list played with this? I saw for the "classic",
there appears to be diff sites with approaches to making changes to
the classic desktop.

thanks

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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