MichaelB, what release are you running?  I've installed something like 8 Desktop Managers (DMs) on my ubuntu 11.10.  I did this for a presentation I did on installing additional DMs.

The problems I've seen are a few extra programs installed for the lightweight DMs, I now get the xubuntu splash at some time in startup and shutdown regardless of which DM I actually use, and some of the DMs don't play well with older projectors.  Cinnamon works great.

This thread is really about 12.04 and I have not tried these things on 12.04.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
I wish that were the case for me - gnome3 won't even launch with multiple framebuffers requiring me to drop to a tty and restart lightdm to choose something else.  Cinnamon is broken on the same display as well.  Sadly with the "new desktops", unity works the best, which isn't saying much in the least.  It's like 2005 all over again, hacking entirely around ui short-sightedness.

At this point the only thing gnome-ish left I can use is gedit and gnome-terminal, even nautilus is still broken on multiple displays. Other than that, avant-window-navigator and cairo-dock provide all my task and tray management.

-mb



On 04/11/2012 09:56 PM, Stephen wrote:
Well while i may hate unity, getting gnome2/3 working is a cakewalk
now. install the one you want. logout and pick the one you want.

you do end up wasting space with unity still installed, but at least it works.

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