{"id":3676,"date":"2011-11-23T20:11:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2011-11-23T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:11:16","slug":"bringing-back-the-netbook-remix-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/11\/23\/bringing-back-the-netbook-remix-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing back the classic &#8220;netbook remix&#8221; in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked before about <a title=\"Bringing back the classic \u201cnetbook remix\u201d interface in Ubuntu 11.04 \u201cNatty Narwhal\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/05\/02\/bringing-back-the-classic-netbook-remix-interface-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal\/\">how to bring the netbook remix user interface back to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)<\/a>, but since 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) came out, Unity has become even more the default &#8211; so much so, that you can&#8217;t even get back to the classic GNOME desktop (which you need to set up the old netbook remix UI).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using the new Unity UI on my netbook since this update, and it&#8217;s&#8230; OK. It&#8217;s better than it was in 11.04, for sure, but it&#8217;s still not quite what I&#8217;d want for a netbook. (The bigger icons in the netbook remix still win when it comes to ease of clicking.)<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there IS (<strong>in theory<\/strong>) a way to bring back the netbook remix, although it takes a bit of work.<\/p>\n<p>First, you need to bring back the classic GNOME desktop. To do this, open a terminal and issue this command:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve done that, you <em>should<\/em> be able to follow the <a title=\"Bringing back the classic \u201cnetbook remix\u201d interface in Ubuntu 11.04 \u201cNatty Narwhal\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/05\/02\/bringing-back-the-classic-netbook-remix-interface-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal\/\">steps outlined in my original article<\/a>. Be aware that this time you&#8217;ll need to follow the links to manually download the packages for maximus, the go-home applet, the netbook-launcher, and the window-picker applet. And you may need to install some additional packages as well to get it to work &#8211; just watch whatever the Ubuntu Software Center&#8217;s UI tells you is required as a dependency, and then go get that.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are too lazy to go to my previous article to get the links to the required packages, here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.ubuntu.com\/natty\/netbook-launcher-efl\">netbook-launcher-efl<\/a><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.ubuntu.com\/natty\/maximus\">maximus<\/a><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.ubuntu.com\/natty\/window-picker-applet\">window-picker-applet<\/a><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/packages.ubuntu.com\/natty\/go-home-applet\">go-home-applet<\/a><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that this works &#8211; I&#8217;ve been able to restore the GNOME session, but haven&#8217;t taken the time to re-download all the packages required. For me personally, I&#8217;m giving Unity a try (since the netbook remix is no longer technically supported). But if this works for you, then more power to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to bring back the old-style &#8220;netbook remix&#8221; user interface in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201],"tags":[23,227,224,97,228],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-technology","tag-computers","tag-linux","tag-netbook","tag-software","tag-ubuntu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-Xi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3412,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/05\/02\/bringing-back-the-classic-netbook-remix-interface-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":0},"title":"Bringing back the classic &#8220;netbook remix&#8221; interface in Ubuntu 11.04 &#8220;Natty Narwhal&#8221;","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"How to bring back the classic netbook interface of the old \"Ubuntu Netbook Remix\" (UNR) in the latest version of Ubuntu.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Software&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Software","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/software-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ubuntu classic desktop","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/05\/ubuntu-classic-desktop-300x225.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2766,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/08\/20\/acer-aspire-one-life-so-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":1},"title":"Acer Aspire One: Life So Far","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Taking a look at the Acer Aspire One D150 after living with it for a few weeks - and the verdict is good!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gadgets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gadgets","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/gadgets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The truly AWESOME look of Ubuntu Netbook Remix","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-300x175.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2741,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/08\/06\/my-new-netbook-acer-aspire-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":2},"title":"My New Netbook: Acer Aspire One","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I finally get the Acer Aspire One netbook I've been lusting after - and it is every bit as good as I'd hoped it would be!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Life","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"my new netbook - ryo-ohki","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2521\/3795219458_1e843337c8.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3390,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/03\/26\/some-completely-pointless-benchmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":3},"title":"Some Completely Pointless Benchmarks","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Just for fun, I timed how long it takes to start up my desktop computer and my netbook. 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