Ubuntu – How to set the GNOME Classic login to be the default with autologin

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The unity-indicator as you may have gathered does not have the same capabilities as Unity. The developers have patched the gnome-libraries to give this integration. However - by design - they have left the Gnome-Shell & Gnome-Classic desktops as vanilla as possible. This is by expression wish by the gnome-developers.

Thus you will need a slightly more inventive solution - this answer will give you one such suggestion.

use the clock applet

Temporarily add the clock applet to the panel.

Find your location by clicking edit in the applet

Next look carefully at the locations:

The value you are interested in is timezone city

In this example:

America/Port_of_Spain Piarco
Europe/Rome Verona

Next fire up dconf-editor

dconf-tools

Look at the locations field as shown and add your new location(s) - each entry is in the format ,'timezone city' i.e. separate entries with commas

You then will automatically update your date-time indicator. You can finish off by deleting the clock applet.

If you want GNOME Flashback (fallback), run this.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-flashback gnome-session-flashback indicator-applet-appmenu 

You will then have options for either GNOME Flashback (Metacity) and GNOME Flashback (Compiz) available when you logout and get back to the login screen.