# Jupyter classic
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-classic/133844
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 13, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-classic/133844 "2025-11-13T08:55:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Ferran\_Mazzanti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ferran_Mazzanti)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-classic/133844/1 "2025-11-13T08:55:41Z")
Hi,
I’m always using jupyer to create my julia notebooks, but always using the classic jupyter, not the jupyterlab one which is very, very igly looking to my eyes. Up until a few days ago I could revert back to the classical jupyter by creating a file in .julia/config/ but that does not work anymore.
So the question is: is there a way to tell the very latest julia / IJulia to use the classical jupyter, which I do have installed on my Anaconda subdirectory?
Best regards and thanks.
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### Author:  [@JamesNZ](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JamesNZ)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-classic/133844/2 "2025-11-13T17:38:44Z")
Which file do you mean exactly? IJulia does support specifying the Jupyter binary to use, but that’s stored in `~/.julia/prefs/IJulia`. And are you talking about the [nbclassic](https://github.com/jupyter/nbclassic) interface? We could add a `nbclassic()` function to IJulia to launch it more easily if that would be useful.
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-classic/133844/4 "2025-11-13T23:43:54Z")
You can always launch any Jupyter front-end you want directly (rather than through Julia), just running `jupyter nbclassic` or whatever.
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### Author:  [@Ferran\_Mazzanti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ferran_Mazzanti)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-classic/133844/5 "2025-11-14T07:54:50Z")
Hi,
thanks for the info. Yes, it is the nbclassic frontend I’d like to have. Right now I can not seem to be able to use it, other than invoking jupyter externally from Julia. That did not happen to me before…
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@JamesNZ](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JamesNZ)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-classic/133844/6 "2025-11-22T19:20:48Z")
`nbclassic()` was added in IJulia v1.33.0: [Changelog · IJulia](https://julialang.github.io/IJulia.jl/stable/changelog/#%5Bv1.33.0%5D(https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/releases/tag/v1.33.0)-2025-11-22)