I searched "gnome resize disable". I saw many responses, but am too clueless to know if any help your issue.
-Denis On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been to busy to fool with Gnome 3 for a while, but I'm > assembling my "I really HATE this, how do I fix it?" list. > > I do not appreciate strangers rearranging my desktop papers. > > When I first encountered Linux and Gnome, years ago, I fell > in love with virtual desktops and Gnome Original - I use 20 > virtuals, populated with many interlocking projects, and on > a 2048x1536 laptop screen it is like having a physical desk > 40 feet wide that I can navigate with a mouseclick. Wow. > > Gnome 3, Gnome Classic, and Cinnamon /all/ share the same > arrogant feature - "all your edges are belong to us". Move > the mouse to the upper left corner (where a full screen CAD > tool might be using the pixels) and bang, you are in the > desktop pager. Move an xterm to the top or the edge, and > it resizes across the screen. How do I turn that stupid > f***ing c**p OFF and get a simple, passive desktop again? > > MATE is Gnome 2 - I can live with their silly renaming of > all the apps. I suppose they had to avoid collisions when > the Gnome 3 wrecking crew plowed through the namespace. But > I worry that without the active support of the major distros > they will fail. I've already run into rendering problems on > the MATE login screen with one graphic chipset. My distro > of choice is stable, staid Red Hat Enterprise Linux, > Scientific Linux variant, and for some reason RHEL chose > Gnome 3 Classic as their principal offering. I expect > Red Hat's customers are NOT updating to RHEL7 in droves. > > I can live with new names, or some changes to the paradigm. > If I can make some incarnation of Gnome 3 leave the damned > edges alone, and do only what I tell it to with keyboard and > mouse clicks, I can relearn how to work, and live with it. > > Is this possible? Otherwise, will MATE get enough support > to endure for a decade or two? Or will I be stuck with > changing to M$Bob\\\\\Gnome 3 in the future, anyway? > > The head of the Gnome project recently asked me for help > with an unrelated issue, and it took all my self control > to remain silent and NOT RIP HIS F***ING HEAD OFF, never > mind helping. Even Miguel de Icaza, the originator of > Gnome, is using Mac OSX now. Does it take a cattle prod > to wake these zombies up? > > To summarize - commit to MATE, or try to repair Gnome 3? > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
