Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Bill Maidment
On 10/10/2019 5:15 am, Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:10:50PM +, Teh, Kenneth M. wrote: One thing that annoys me is the hot top left corner but I have that disabled. That is nice to know, I'll find out how. I presume Mate and Gnome3 can coexist on the same machine,

Re: New Keys I have never heard of

2019-10-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/10/2019 21:48, Jeffrey Anderson wrote: Historically, "Super" first appeared on a keyboard in 1980. Today, in the context of linux, Super is usually an alternate name for the Windows key. You should be able to define alternate key combinations if you don't have a physical windows key. 

Re: New Keys I have never heard of

2019-10-09 Thread Jeffrey Anderson
Historically, "Super" first appeared on a keyboard in 1980. Today, in the context of linux, Super is usually an alternate name for the Windows key. You should be able to define alternate key combinations if you don't have a physical windows key. I know that in KDE, the "run program" dialog can

New Keys I have never heard of

2019-10-09 Thread Larry Linder
What is super + tab ? Did someone redefine the kayboard ? A lot of our keyboards do not have the microsoft window key !!! So we just toss a bunch of good keyboards to use centos 8 Larry Linder

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 07:44:23PM +, Teh, Kenneth M. wrote: > The desktop icons I would have liked to have are files/documents one is > currently working with. I haven't figured out how. That is exactly what I use my desktop for. Documents I am working on, PDFs I'm reading before filing,

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Teh, Kenneth M.
Re: desktop icons. App icons are in the dock so having a shortcut link on the desktop to an app is not really needed. Hit the Super (the Windows) key and type the name of the app you want to launch. Much faster. If the current focus is the Gnome Terminal, Ctrl-Shift-N opens a new Gnome

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:10:50PM +, Teh, Kenneth M. wrote: > One thing that annoys me is the hot top left corner but I have that disabled. That is nice to know, I'll find out how. I presume Mate and Gnome3 can coexist on the same machine, perhaps with different logins to access them, so

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Alec Habig
Teh, Kenneth M. writes: > I agree with David. I've been using Gnome 3 since Fedora 26 and it's > really quite nice. I especially like the ability to launch an app from > the keyboard without an open terminal. I somehow only discovered recently that in KDE, typing without a window in focus (so,

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Teh, Kenneth M.
I agree with David. I've been using Gnome 3 since Fedora 26 and it's really quite nice. I especially like the ability to launch an app from the keyboard without an open terminal. The Windows or Super key is really very handy. I'm also very fond of the Mac-style scroll. I just wish I could get