Quick question about Ubuntu

[Cryosec]

I have ubuntu 16.04 installed on one of my desktop drives, but I'm not a fan of the Unity environment. I really like the 17.10 GNOME, and would like to use that on my 16.04 install. I know I could just use 17.10, but there are some compatibility problems with my hardware.

 

Any suggestions? is this even possible?

[Anghammarad]

you could try getting the gnome enviroment installed and then switch the windowmanager config to use gnome instead of unity.

 

Dependencies will tell you if there are problems while installing.

 

which are the issues? some can be worked around... some can't

[MysticalGnome]

You can install the gnome-desktop by running sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop gdm in the terminal or you can use the package manger to find gnome desktop.

[Cryosec]

17 hours ago, MysticalGnome said:

You can install the gnome-desktop by running sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop gdm in the terminal or you can use the package manger to find gnome desktop.

doing this will install the "normal" gnome desktop, not the modified one from ubuntu 17.10

 

22 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

which are the issues? some can be worked around... some can't

mostly keyboard LED. tried different ways, still won't turn on. it works on 16.04

[Cryosec]

10 hours ago, JohnKapri said:

There seems to be a backport of the current "Ubuntu Gnome" flavor of Gnome for Xenial by the Ubuntu Desktop team in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-3-24

I'd suggest just installing standard Gnome from the 16.04 repos with some extensions to emulate the new Ubuntu Gnome feeling (because frankly, that's all it is), but Xenial ships with 3.14 binaries which are ancient by now. The above link seems to have updated binaries for the most part. I haven't tried it, though.

 

What do you mean by keyboard LED? The lock-lights? Or backlighting?

I'll test it, don't care if it breakes everything

I mean backlighting, I have a CM Storm devastator kit (yeah I know, cheap stuff) which I've always turned on with 'xset led 3' either manually or in a script I wrote

[noahdvs]

On 12/8/2017 at 6:12 AM, Cryosec said:

doing this will install the "normal" gnome desktop, not the modified one from ubuntu 17.10

 

mostly keyboard LED. tried different ways, still won't turn on. it works on 16.04

Ubuntu 17.10 uses a modified version of the Dash-to-Dock extension. Ubuntu has to maintain its own version due to the breakage that can happen when a new version of GNOME is released, but they did upstream the modifications for the Dash-to-Dock extension.