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Gnome “Classic” will be a separate session in 3.8

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 1, 2012

What was known is that Gnome 3.8 will support a Gnome2-ish environment through some extensions. What wasn’t clear is if that option would be included in Gnome Control Center (similar to Fallback) or in Gnome Tweak Tool.

Neither will happen. Gnome “Classic” will start up a separate session, and that means we can choose if from Gnome Display Manager before we login in Gnome. In other words, Gnomers will pay lot of attention to it.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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