The new version of Ubuntu will be released shortly and many take advantage of this release to clean their pc, others simply update. For the first ones, today I bring you the possibility of trying a new desk, something minimalist and beautiful, the Pantheon from Elementary OS.
Really Pantheon it is not a desk in itself but is a gnome shell highly modified so many consider it as a desktop. It is modified to such an extent that its requirements are almost minimal, placing it next to the XFCE in terms of lightweight environments.
Install Pantheon on our Ubuntu
Clearly, Pantheon It is not found in the official Ubuntu repositories, so the only possible installation, at least the simplest and fastest for everyone, is to use the terminal and type
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa: elementary-os / dailysudo apt-add-repository -y ppa: elementary-os / stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop
With these lines the installation of Pantheon in our Ubuntu. The installation process will depend on our equipment and our connection, but it will not be long. Many who have carried out this installation have noticed that there is a bug regarding the desktop background, it may be that today it is already solved and it will not happen to you, but if it happens, the possible solution is to write the following in the terminal
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background active true
After this, we close the session and reopen it, personally I restart the system, so that the changes that require a restart are completed.
If we really want to have the appearance of Elementary, it will not be enough to install Pantheon, we will have to install other elements such as Plank olElementary's appearance in other programs, but we will also need to install the modifications that are enabled for the Pantheon so it is necessary to write via terminal
sudo apt-add-repository ppa: versable / elementary-update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks
However, this last option is something that I do not like personally, I prefer to review the official documentation and tinker myself, you never know if the modifications that are made are good or bad, even so I put it for you so that you can see, compare and judge yourselves.
[Upgrade]
Thanks to rhoconlinux for their contribution, better to use the stable branch before the possibility of breaking the distribution and having serious problems. The result is the same but more secure.