I can live without them
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| tracyanne Dec 03, 2011 1:54 AM EDT |
Unless and until they develop extensions that 1) make it possiblr to move or remove the top panel, and make it possible to define a set number of static virtual desktops, they aren't even close to something I can't live without. |
| MALsPa Dec 03, 2011 6:36 AM EDT |
I actually prefer GNOME Shell without any of the 5 extensions mentioned. Don't see anything yet for moving or removing the top panel (although you can add a bottom panel). There's the Frippery Static Workspaces extension if you want to force the shell to maintain a fixed number of workspaces. Looks like the extensions.gnome.org site doesn't work yet in Chrome/Chromium. |
| helios Dec 03, 2011 10:58 AM EDT |
*Does fist bump with TA while consuming copious amounts of Lager..... |
| r_a_trip Dec 03, 2011 1:42 PM EDT |
Set number of static virtual desktops: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/12/static-workspaces/ The top panel is still unremovable though. |
| Koriel Dec 03, 2011 5:00 PM EDT |
At the moment im staying clear of Gnome 3 & Gnome Shell until things settle down a bit, saying that if any SelekTOR users have tried running it on Gnome 3 drop me a PM here or use my "contact us" on my website and let me know how you got on. I never use a top panel so it kinda rules it out for me at the moment, as far as im concerned all panels need to be configurable. |
| montezuma Dec 03, 2011 7:21 PM EDT |
Koriel, I have been using gnome 3 and tried out Selektor. Works the same as gnome 2 i.e. puts an icon in the indicator location and you can right click on this etc. I tried it with BBC iplayer from the US and it works nicely..... |
| Koriel Dec 03, 2011 7:27 PM EDT |
Thanks for that _montezuma. |
| tracyanne Dec 04, 2011 3:29 AM EDT |
I've been testing LM12 with MATE. First let me say it's really nice to have GNOME 2.x available, along with all the functionality that makes my desktop really productive. A big thank you to the people who forked GNOME 2, to create MATE. Obviously there are a few issues due to the rather large job required to remove all the GNOME references. But I think we can expect those to go away as time goes by. A couple of issues I have. On LM12 I can't work out how to make MATE the default desktop. GNOME 3 shell is currently the default, and I have to select MATE at the login screen. LM12 with the MATE desktop failed to recognise my dual monitor set up properly, assigning the same resolution of 1920x1080 to both monitors, when one has a resolution of 1920x1200. The test machine was running in VirtualBox, so that may have something to do with it. I haven't yet tried it on the hardware. On my net book the xrandr hack didn't work properly. It resized the screen resolution (from 1024x600 to 1361x798) but failed to resize the mouse tracking resolution, so the mouse pointer remained trapped in a 1024x600 area. Other than those issues it works very well. |
| montezuma Dec 04, 2011 9:56 AM EDT |
TA Yes I was actually amazed with how well this fork is working. Perebos is a busy bee. His git commits have been very high through November so this project is very active. On my hardware installed Mint all I needed to do was select MATE at the login (ldm) and it stayed there next time I logged in.... |
| tracyanne Dec 05, 2011 6:43 AM EDT |
@monty, that didn't work for me, I finally located the lightdm.conf file and manually edited it to start the session in MATE instead of GNOME-Shell. |
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