Comment 15 for bug 985202

At the request of an Ubuntu user I am posting the method I used to downgrade xlibs and friends:

From a terminal:

mkdir ~/x11downgrade
cd ~/x11downgrade
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mesa/libgl1-mesa-glx_7.11-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mesa/libglapi-mesa_7.11-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtk+2.0/libgtk2.0-0_2.24.6-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtk+2.0/libgtk2.0-common_2.24.6-0ubuntu5_all.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-6_1.4.4-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxcomposite/libxcomposite1_0.4.3-2_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxdamage/libxdamage1_1.1.3-2_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxext/libxext6_1.3.0-3_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxfixes/libxfixes3_5.0-4_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxi/libxi6_1.4.3-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxinerama/libxinerama1_1.1.1-3_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxrandr/libxrandr2_1.3.2-2_amd64.deb
wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/libx/libxrender/libxrender1_0.9.6-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Note that this may install packages that you did not originally have installed, and that I have only tested this under TDE--I have no idea if this will work with Gnome.