Install/Use Gnome 2 as front end?


kingoddball

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Has anyone been able to install and use the old Gnome2 GUI on Pandora?


It's more of a test thing, Gnome 2 ran OK older hardware.


How can we install this?
 
Well... If you're running from SD already you should be able to:



Code:
sudo opkg update

sudo opkg install --force-overwrite angstrom-task-gnome

to install all the required packages. There are likely to be conflicts with Pandora specific changes to files. So you might want to try it on a "test" SD card and not your daily.

The you'll need to:



Code:
sudo mousepad /etc/pandora/conf/gui.conf

and add the relevant commands so you can switch in and out of Gnome, XFCE, and MiniMenu.



Code:
Gnome;Testing Gnome Environment;gnome-session;gnome-session-save –logout


That should at least get you started. Certainly there will be some caveats, but that's half the fun of tinkering with stuff like this
 
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You can try to install it in slackware for Pandora.
 
You can try to install it in slackware for Pandora.

Should be hard, because i already ship many up-to-date gnome libraries.


So an old SlackBuild or whatever has to be found and Gnome compiled with specific --prefix.


Also, Gnome is so intrusive in the system (that's why it was kicked out by Patrick Volkerding) that it will probably break many things.
 
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