For me (and for people I'm trying to keep things easy for), the main thing I wanted was the Applications and Places menus at the top and the bar at the bottom. For those, look for the gnome tweak tool and look in "Extensions".
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:56 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > My first encounter with gnome3 was disturbing - way too > much eye candy and gesture dependence and memory footprint. > So, I stayed with older gnome2-using distros, but support > for those is vanishing. > > I plan to use gnome2-emulating Mate with newer distros > (specifically, from Scientific Linux 6 to S.L.7, then to > CentOS 8 someday). > > However, I vaguely recall being told that gnome3 can be > configured to behave very much like gnome2. > > Is this true? WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE???? > > If gnome3 is indeed capable of this miraculous compatibility, > how much larger is the memory footprint and CPU usage? > > I plan to keep using my older Thinkpad laptops with full > height screens and real keyboards, but those are limited > to 4 GB RAM and 8-year-old lower-speed CPUs. > > If gnome2-configured gnome3 is too bloated (and when has > software ever become smaller and more efficient?), I'll > stick with Mate, stone knives, and bearskins. > > Keith > > PS: I am very very NOT interested in learning how to use > /your/ personal favorite alternative distro. I am having > trouble enough remembering how to use the distro family > I've been using for decades, much less cope with SystemD. > I'd rather spend my time learning about cosmology. > > -- > 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
