Thanks for the Tweak tool idea!
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joost Ruis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah I had it too.
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> http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=24693&start=10
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> I wrote some updates on that topic.
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> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Lorenzo Cogotti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am using (read trying to tolerate) the made of easy desktop
>> environment :)
>>
>> First of all, I had to do some trickery to correctly update the old
>> Gnome2 environment, many libraries and old packages were left, I had to
>> manually remove them and install some packages that were not pulled as
>> dependencies with a normal:
>> equo upgrade
>>
>> for example the gnome-core* ones.
>> I guess this is normal as it is still testing.
>>
>> The most important thing that I have to signal is this one:
>> ATI proprietary drivers and gnome-shell don't live good togheter, I have
>> corrupted desktop, flickering issues, rendering problems, all sort of
>> instabilities in the graphics level.
>> I narrowed it down to the ATI drivers and to this bug report:
>> http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99
>>
>> I think that Sabayon should not add Gnome3 until this bug is fixed, it
>> makes the desktop unusable.
>> Luckily the failsafe mode works, so if it really has to replace Gnome2,
>> please make it automagically force the failsafe mode if the ATI
>> proprietary driver is in use :)
>>
>> Another thing that I would like to share is some settings that makes
>> Gnome3 a little more made of easy to me :P
>> I found some interesting options in the Gnome Tweak Tool:
>> 1) Desktop with icons
>> toggle on the option:
>> Gnome Tweak Tool -> File Manager -> Have file manager handle the desktop
>>
>> 2) Home and Trash icons on desktop
>> toggle on the options:
>> Gnome Tweak Tool -> File Manager -> Home icon visible on desktop
>> Gnome Tweak Tool -> File Manager -> Trash icon visible on desktop
>>
>> 3) minimize and maximize on windows
>> switch to All the option:
>> Gnome Tweak Tool -> Shell -> Arrangment of buttons on titlebar
>>
>> 4) date on clock
>> switch to on the option:
>> Gnome Tweak Tool -> Shell -> Show date in clock
>>
>> I don't know if this is useful, it just makes Gnome3 so much better to
>> me, so I thought you could consider adding this as a default
>> configuration, if it looks good.
>>
>> I have to say, aside from the fglrx issues, it is very stable for being
>> a testing environment, I am quite impressed.
>>
>> Il giorno mar, 19/07/2011 alle 21.57 +0200, Fabio Erculiani ha scritto:
>>> I am starting to push GNOME3 packages to sabayon-limbo repository.
>>> We are not accepting any bug report against them since they are not
>>> tested and for sure a lot of things will break: WE KNOW IT.
>>> So consider yourself warned, if you are using sabayon-limbo on
>>> production/semi-production systems, just drop it or join the happy
>>> adventure with us.
>>>
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