Re: [gentoo-user] [gnome3 stable] Not as bad as I expected
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/12/13 12:10, walt wrote: I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 feature by doing it that way :( The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very* quickly to the left upper corner of the screen. Who knew? Well, I didn't know until yesterday because virtualbox allows the mouse pointer to slide right off of the guest window onto my real desktop without notifying the guest machine, apparently. Anyway, the active-left-upper-corner feature saves me one annoying extra mouse-click when launching the apps I use all day long. That one extra mouse-click was a major gnome3 bug for me, but now it's just a virtual bug :) For us old gnome2 farts who don't know where to begin with gnome3, I'd suggest installing two gnome-shell extensions that may save you many hours of bewilderment: First, the settings center extension, which exposes several important sub-menus that are otherwise nearly impossible to find. Second, the system-monitor extension, which replaces the multiload gnome-panel applet that I can't live without. The gnome extension website offers several 'system-monitor' applets, but the one I'm now using is the one written by 'darkxst'. So happy :) I strongly suggest emerging the 'alacarte' and 'gnome-tweak-tool' packages from gnome-extra. They are not installed by default when emerging 'gnome', but I couldn't use gnome without them. Happy to answer any gnome3 questions if I can. Just for reference, I don't think the hot-corner issue a bug but a result of how it operates. If i'm not mistaken, the hot corner has to be activated by the mouse cursor actually hitting the corner. With the typical way the virtual machine works, with the mouse not actually 'entering' the environment, it's almost impossible to hit the corner properly as it transitions seamlessly between the guest and the host. Two ways to address this are to use the virtual machine in fullscreen mode (meaning that the corner really is the corner) or to have the virtual machine fully capture the mouse (requiring it to be released by use of the 'host' key (generally Right-CTRL). If you can, give it a try and let me know if it works :) - -- wraeth -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlKsHNkACgkQGYlqHeQRhkyWyAD/c3+6+9nBp91dqs+2dSbfIBQI jb87kVZQDn6jwYhwDPEA/iBMVOa1sn4ZK4V/HBWYTKM7LyDpsTdCoXZQF5v/LO/t =ILCN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] [gnome3 stable] Not as bad as I expected
I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 feature by doing it that way :( The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very* quickly to the left upper corner of the screen. Who knew? Well, I didn't know until yesterday because virtualbox allows the mouse pointer to slide right off of the guest window onto my real desktop without notifying the guest machine, apparently. Anyway, the active-left-upper-corner feature saves me one annoying extra mouse-click when launching the apps I use all day long. That one extra mouse-click was a major gnome3 bug for me, but now it's just a virtual bug :) For us old gnome2 farts who don't know where to begin with gnome3, I'd suggest installing two gnome-shell extensions that may save you many hours of bewilderment: First, the settings center extension, which exposes several important sub-menus that are otherwise nearly impossible to find. Second, the system-monitor extension, which replaces the multiload gnome-panel applet that I can't live without. The gnome extension website offers several 'system-monitor' applets, but the one I'm now using is the one written by 'darkxst'. So happy :) I strongly suggest emerging the 'alacarte' and 'gnome-tweak-tool' packages from gnome-extra. They are not installed by default when emerging 'gnome', but I couldn't use gnome without them. Happy to answer any gnome3 questions if I can.
Re: [gentoo-user] [gnome3 stable] Not as bad as I expected
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 feature by doing it that way :( The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very* quickly to the left upper corner of the screen. Who knew? Well, I didn't know until yesterday because virtualbox allows the mouse pointer to slide right off of the guest window onto my real desktop without notifying the guest machine, apparently. Anyway, the active-left-upper-corner feature saves me one annoying extra mouse-click when launching the apps I use all day long. That one extra mouse-click was a major gnome3 bug for me, but now it's just a virtual bug :) There's an even faster way -- something I couldn't live without and possibly the only thing that makes Unity/Gnome3/Windows 8 usable to me: Press the super key (the Windows key on my keyboard by default, but it's configurable). I *hate* having to use my mouse so much to access programs and in *all three* of these interfaces I can avoid the mouse much more with the same shortcut. Check out the Gnome Shell cheat sheet[0] if you haven't already. For us old gnome2 farts who don't know where to begin with gnome3, I'd suggest installing two gnome-shell extensions that may save you many hours of bewilderment: First, the settings center extension, which exposes several important sub-menus that are otherwise nearly impossible to find. Second, the system-monitor extension, which replaces the multiload gnome-panel applet that I can't live without. The gnome extension website offers several 'system-monitor' applets, but the one I'm now using is the one written by 'darkxst'. So happy :) I strongly suggest emerging the 'alacarte' and 'gnome-tweak-tool' packages from gnome-extra. They are not installed by default when emerging 'gnome', but I couldn't use gnome without them. Happy to answer any gnome3 questions if I can. [0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet -- Alecks Gates
