Install GNOME Desktop On Ubuntu 11.10
Monday, October 24, 2011 posted by CSch
If you would like your Ubuntu 11.10 better with the old GNOME desktop (no launcher but a good old system panel and so on), you can just install the gnome package and choose it as your default desktop environment. Therefore open a terminal and enter:
sudo apt-get install gnome
During the installation there will be some prompts that you will have to answer. Click OK on the first one after you are done reading:
Next, you will have to decide which desktop environment you want to configure as your default:
After installation, the GNOME as well as the Unity desktops will be available on the cogwheel-button in the login-screen:




thanks, very helpfull