desktop display manager

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 14:52, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was able to get the basic gnome-classic, as well as flashback to test.

They are the same thing these days.

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

It is a skin designed to look the same, but based around Gtk4.

One of the things I did not like about it is that it is not very customisable.

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

Then I suggest you try the MATE desktop instead.

Me personally, I prefer Xfce, which can look exactly like that. It's
lighter and simpler and cleaner. The optional xfce4-panel-profiles
tool lets you switch layouts with 1 click. One layout is GNOME 2. But
it is a different tool for a different desktop.

If you want things how they were, then you want MATE.

https://ubuntu-mate.org/

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