Ubuntu – old classic gnome on ubuntu 15.10

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I'm coming back to linux. When I was using it before it was old good looking familiar gnome time. I'm trying to get this great useful look back on my new system – ubuntu 15.10. I'm installed classic gnome, but it's still not this one gnome which I remember. I'm not able to edit panels (I tired all possible combination alt, ctrl, windows key and mouse clicking). I tried installation of indicator-applet-appmenu, -session and it doesn't help ether. Is there any way to come back to old great look?
If that's not possible then which desktop environment is the best for me if I want have panel with active application (like in windows), and with shortcuts to applications/action (but not the big one like in unity) which I choose, and information about system utilization?

I read How to customize the gnome classic panel that where I found info about alt windows keys combination but it's not working in any of them

Best Answer

You want the mate desktop, it is designed to emulate the old gnome 2 desktop, you can use these commands to add it to your current 15.10 install

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/utopic-mate
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core

Now log out and click the cog icon and choose mate

Alternitivly, there is an official mate based version of Ubuntu here

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