<blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Since I use xmonad as my window manager and only fire up e.g. nautilus<br>
when i need it the gnome3 thing doesn't really matter to me and ubuntu<br>
stays perfectly usable? Isn't it possible to install a real gnome2 on<br>
ubuntu, too?<br>
<br>
flo<br></blockquote>
<br>There Is a Linux Mint extension to Gnome 3 Shell that should work in Ubuntu 11.10 and restore Gnome 2.x functionality:<br><br><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/try-new-mint-gnome-shell-extensions.html">http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/try-new-mint-gnome-shell-extensions.html</a><br>
<br>Tony<br>