How to install Classic Gnome Flashback in Ubuntu 16.10 “Yakkety Yak.” Learn how to install the Gnome Classic Desktop in Ubuntu 16.10 Systems. By installing Gnome flashback compiz or metacity, Ubuntu users can experience the classic Gnome desktop.
GNOME Flashback is a session for GNOME 3 which was initially called “GNOME Fallback”, and shipped as a stand-alone session in Debian and Ubuntu. It provides a similar user experience to the GNOME 2.x series sessions. The differences to the MATE project is that GNOME Flashback uses GTK+ 3 and tries to follow the current GNOME development by integrating recent changes of the GNOME libraries. The development currently lags behind a little but a lot of progress has been made and most importantly many open bugs have been fixed.
Currently GNOME Flashback consists of the following components:
- GnomePanel: This component provides a flexible panel. One or more of these panels can be added to the screen and can be populated with multiple applets to open application, indicators for sound and network, a clock applet with date, time and weather and many more.
- Metacity: The window manager of GNOME Flashback, optionally other window managers such as mutter can be used but Metacity is the one thats officially supported. Recently Metacity has been ported to GTK+ 3 and gained the side-by-side window tiling feature that is also available in GNOME Shell.
- GnomeApplets: This component provides a collection of useful applets for the GNOME Panel. See also a list of third-party applets.
- Flashback module: A new module since September 2014. It provides session files, background features, a sound applet and shutdown dialogs.
- Notification Daemon: This was part of GNOME Flashback for few releases. In 3.20 notification daemon is merged into gnome-flashback module.
Gnome Flashback On Ubuntu
Run the following commands to install Gnome Flashback session on Ubuntu 16.10 Systems.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install gnome-session-flashback
Once installed, log out and login. During the login process, click the Ubuntu logo after username and click on the option for Gnome Flashback sessions. There are two different types of session – GNOME Flashback (Metacity) and GNOME Flashback (Compiz).
Credit: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback