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cannot change gui in 12.0.4

Asked by Carol Painting

I have read answers to similar problems and they don't work for me. I wish to access a normal gui, where I have access to menus. I have tried installing kde4 and I've tried installing the gnome panel (the latter as recommended by Warren Hill in an answer to #207611). Neither of these work because I don't get an option to select a desktop. I've tried disabling the auto login but there are no options on the screen that asks for my password.

I went back to 10.04 LTS, added kde4 and with that I do get an option to select the gui, so what have I missed with 12.04?

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xoristzatziki (simsonbike-bugs) said : 		#1

Disabling auto login will present a login screen (next time you reboot). In that screen first select the user (your user name...). Before entering the password (depending on the installation) somewhere will be a drop down box (maybe with "UBUNTU" option selected) where you can select Gnome classic (recomended if not experienced user).

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Best Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#2

Assuming you get to the log on screen OK then you can select the desktop.

Just to the right hand side if the box that takes your password there is a circular icon. It's not obvious that this opens a drop down list until you click it. When you do you will see a list of all the desktops installed. The one I suggested is "Ubuntu Classic".

Select this and enter your password. Should just work

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Carol Painting (cpainting) said : 		#3

Thanks Warren Hill, that solved my question.

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Carol Painting (cpainting) said : 		#4

Thanks - that works; Warren explained where to find the menu.

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Subject: Re: [Question #210306]: cannot change gui in 12.0.4
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:26:07 -0000

Your question #210306 on unity in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+question/210306

    Status: Open => Answered

xoristzatziki proposed the following answer:
Disabling auto login will present a login screen (next time you reboot).
In that screen first select the user (your user name...). Before
entering the password (depending on the installation) somewhere will be
a drop down box (maybe with "UBUNTU" option selected) where you can
select Gnome classic (recomended if not experienced user).