On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > > greets ... > > today (at least in my timezone ;-) ) I saw gnome-3.6-related ebuilds > coming up on my ~amd64 box ... > > I ran a backup (yes, experience ...) and emerged stuff ... so far it > runs OK. > > There are changes and new features and I am still exploring stuff. > > The general question: is it a bug or a feature? ;-) > > for example Alt-leftclick doesn't allow me to move windows right now. > > bug?
No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but now it's gone. I don't know if anyone is working on bring it back. > What I'd like to discuss: > > how to start over for a given user? For example, I want to get rid of > old stuff from gnome-1.x/2.x or so (I think of my ~-directory, not the > overall system). Or even bigger, does it make sense to drop stuff from > all those dot-directories in ~ from time to time (e.g. at bigger > GUI-upgrades) and only keep some important ones? > > For example I would keep core stuff like .gnupg .ssh .bashrc > .thunderbird (in my case) ... but I am sure there is loads of stuff to > get rid of. > > Maybe most of it doesn't make a difference (hdd-space is cheap anyways) > and isn't even read anymore by recent versions of software. But maybe > some files/dirs should get dumped and forgotten. > > Do you gentoo-users have any opinions on this? > > Does it make any sense to re-create my main user(-dir)? I started over with a clean $HOME, and I moved back the non-GNOME stuff (.ssh, .gnupg, .bash*, etc). But maybe it was overkill. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
