Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread fred roller
sshfs /home/[user]/[directory of remote PC/ /home/[user]/Directory of Local PC] Corrected to: sshfs [ip address to remote]:/home/[user]/[directory of remote PC/ /home/[user]/Directory of Local PC] This is what I get for responding before the first cup of coffee. -- users mailing list

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread fred roller
> I'm in process of trying Rick Stevens's suggestion, next time I > get back to that machine. Anybody happen to know a way to c between > machines on a KVM switch? Or even whether a quick way exists? (scp -r for > whole files is fine, but a bit like sledge-hammering a gnat for single >

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-04-02 Thread Misha Shnurapet
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > do another new install with Xfce instead. Trying to remove Gnome3 is > guaranteed to drive you bat sh*t crazy. Gnome wends its grubby little It takes exactly the same package manager, command line and keys to uninstall

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/25/2016 11:05 AM, Bear Tooth wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:23:17 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: All this sort of depends on what you all mean by "gnome packages" because the gnome folks maintain a lot of base packages that many other things depend on. ie, Xfce wouldn't exist without gtk2,

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-25 Thread maderios
écrit : On 03/23/2016 02:30 PM, Bear Tooth wrote: Very Dumb Question : I've just installed F 23, and failed to tell it to use xfce; how do I fix that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) Re-install.. You'll lose less time than install xfce and uninstall gnome stuff. ;) Of

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-25 Thread Bear Tooth
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:23:17 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > All this sort of depends on what you all mean by "gnome packages" > because the gnome folks maintain a lot of base packages that many other > things depend on. ie, Xfce wouldn't exist without gtk2, > xfce4-power-manager requires upower,

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
23/03/2016 22:38, Joe Zeff a écrit : > >>>> On 03/23/2016 02:30 PM, Bear Tooth wrote: > >>>>> Very Dumb Question : > >>>>> > >>>>> I've just installed F 23, and failed to tell it to use > >>>>> xfce; ho

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-24 Thread maderios
it to use xfce; how do I fix that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) Re-install.. You'll lose less time than install xfce and uninstall gnome stuff. ;) Of course if you don't make the same mistake.. again.. Good luck ! Yeah, I agree. If all you want is Xfce AND this is a new

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-24 Thread Rick Stevens
doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) Re-install.. You'll lose less time than install xfce and uninstall gnome stuff. ;) Of course if you don't make the same mistake.. again.. Good luck ! Yeah, I agree. If all you want is Xfce AND this is a new install, just do another new install with Xfce

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-24 Thread Diogene Laerce
that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) Re-install.. You'll lose less time than install xfce and uninstall gnome stuff. ;) Of course if you don't make the same mistake.. again.. Good luck ! -- “One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-23 Thread François Patte
Le 23/03/2016 22:38, Joe Zeff a écrit : > On 03/23/2016 02:30 PM, Bear Tooth wrote: >> >> Very Dumb Question : >> >> I've just installed F 23, and failed to tell it to use xfce; how >> do I fix that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) >

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/23/2016 02:30 PM, Bear Tooth wrote: Very Dumb Question : I've just installed F 23, and failed to tell it to use xfce; how do I fix that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) sudo dnf group install "Xfce Desktop" Then log out, log back in and select

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-23 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/23/2016 02:30 PM, Bear Tooth wrote: Very Dumb Question : I've just installed F 23, and failed to tell it to use xfce; how do I fix that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) Uhm, 'dnf groupinstall "Xfce De

VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-23 Thread Bear Tooth
Very Dumb Question : I've just installed F 23, and failed to tell it to use xfce; how do I fix that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up

Re: Gnome-3 workspace moves

2015-02-06 Thread Greg Woods
that this does not devolve into a flame war about how Gnome 3 sucks. I have put some effort into customizing Gnome 3 just the way I want it, and would prefer not to have to do all that customization all over again while getting used to a whole new desktop environment. So please, no more responses of the form I

Re: Gnome-3 workspace moves

2015-02-05 Thread Jim Lewis
the option to move a window to any existing workspace? Thanks, --Greg -- Hi Greg, I didn't know Gnome-3 even had workspaces. I tried to use it for a month and then gave up. I am now happy using the Fedora 21 Mate-Compbiz spin and it handles the workspaces the way you want. Jim Lewis -- users

Re: Gnome-3 workspace moves

2015-02-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
workspaces. Is there any way to recover the option to move a window to any existing workspace? I think there is a tweek for that. Look at the tweek tool. Plus there are plugins that allow you to ctl-alt-arrow to move apps across workspaces. But I have switched to Xfce so don't have a F21/Gnome-3

Gnome-3 workspace moves

2015-02-05 Thread Greg Woods
In F20, I used to be able to right click the title bar of a window, and select which workspace I wanted to move it to. Now in F21 all I get is the option to Move to Workspace Down or Move to Workspace Up. This is a big loss when I have 12 named workspaces. Is there any way to recover the option to

Re: Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

2014-01-07 Thread Jake Dancer
Thank you. Now I can make a copy of the user file and experiment with fixing my problem, knowing I can copy the original file back, if I mess up. The name and location of this file is what I was missing. Jake On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On

Re: Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

2014-01-07 Thread Jake Dancer
Update. Now that I know where Gnome keeps my favorites information, I made a copy of this database file, then started removing entries from my favorites. The icons resize feature is still working. I got down to a single icon, which I could not remove. (There was no option to remove the last

Re: Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

2014-01-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/07/14 20:03, Jake Dancer wrote: Update. Now that I know where Gnome keeps my favorites information, I made a copy of this database file, then started removing entries from my favorites. The icons resize feature is still working. I got down to a single icon, which I could not

Re: Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

2014-01-07 Thread Jake Dancer
I used your idea. Great idea by the way. I was able to reset the favorites list. I then added icons one or two at a time until the list ran off the bottom of the screen. I logged out, reset the list and logged back in. This time I added different icons. I did this five times. each with

Re: Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

2014-01-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/07/2014 05:09 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: If you were to logout, then use ssh to login to the system and delete that file it will be recreated on login to GNOME but with a set of default applications what are stored someplace in the system files. Much simpler is to move to a CLI console,

Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

2014-01-06 Thread Jake Dancer
Hello, I'm running with a fully updated Fedora 20 system. When I click on the activities icon in the upper left corner, I get the favorites list, except the bottom part is now cut off. I believe Gnome should be switching to a small set of icons for the list. Up until a few days ago I would

Re: Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

2014-01-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/07/14 10:18, Jake Dancer wrote: Hello, I'm running with a fully updated Fedora 20 system. When I click on the activities icon in the upper left corner, I get the favorites list, except the bottom part is now cut off. I believe Gnome should be switching to a small set of icons

Re: gnome 3 vs kde

2014-01-05 Thread Ian Chapman
On 04/01/14 10:16, William Biggs wrote: I would like to know witch one would you use and why gnome 3 or kde ? If I had to choose only between the two, it would be KDE. I find 'Gnome 3' practically unusable. For me though, I'm a cinnamon desktop convert. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing

Re: gnome 3 vs kde

2014-01-04 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 04 January 2014, Marko Vojinovic sent: And I would like to know which one would you eat and why --- chocolate or strawberry? Chocolate coated strawberry, of course. And because it's yummy. -- All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying

Re: gnome 3 vs kde

2014-01-04 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:16:00 -0500 William Biggs williambigg...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know witch one would you use and why gnome 3 or kde ? Neither DE like beauty is in the Eyes of the Beerholder ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users

gnome 3 vs kde

2014-01-03 Thread William Biggs
I would like to know witch one would you use and why gnome 3 or kde ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: gnome 3 vs kde

2014-01-03 Thread Patrick Lists
On 01/04/2014 03:16 AM, William Biggs wrote: I would like to know witch one would you use and why gnome 3 or kde ? It comes down to personal perference so just download the Fedora 20 GNOME 3 and KDE livecd's you would like to see and boot them on a pc. It will not touch any data on the pc

Re: gnome 3 vs kde

2014-01-03 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:16:00 -0500 William Biggs williambigg...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know witch one would you use and why gnome 3 or kde ? And I would like to know which one would you eat and why --- chocolate or strawberry? :-) Marko -- users mailing list users

Fedora 20 / Gnome 3 crashing when ssh session hangs/fails

2013-12-18 Thread Digimer
Hi all, Twice today I've had my system lock up hard when my ssh session failed. In both cases, the mouse pointer moved still, but I couldn't corner bump or even do ctrl + alt + f2/f3/f4 to get a terminal window. My setup is a fresh install (not an upgrade) of stock Fedora 20 x86_64,

Gnome 3 Favourite programs.

2013-10-28 Thread Bill Case
Epiphany) as my favourite so whenever I clicked a link not in Firefox, Web would open in the workspace where I was working for a quick search. How now in Gnome 3 can I set this favourite or preferred Browser to Web? [P.S. I have never found a Gnome help site that actually answers questions or gives

Re: Gnome 3 Favourite programs.

2013-10-28 Thread Stephen Gallagher
browser set to start on startup in its own workspace. I would also choose Web (formerly Epiphany) as my favourite so whenever I clicked a link not in Firefox, Web would open in the workspace where I was working for a quick search. How now in Gnome 3 can I set this favourite or preferred

Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

2013-10-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
clear why the gnome 3 worked from the live image, but the fedup upgrade to 19 it doesn't? +--+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mi

Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

2013-10-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
:Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200 Am 08.10.2013 09:37, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II: I have a classroom that currently has Fedora 17, and tested a machine booting from the livecd via flash and the gnome3 worked? I then upgraded a machine to fedora 19, and gnome

Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

2013-10-08 Thread Reindl Harald
that problem, but did the same here, and still same results. Note clear why the gnome 3 worked from the live image, but the fedup upgrade to 19 it doesn't? because the live image does not use the nvidia BLOB driver? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

2013-10-08 Thread Reindl Harald
had an issue, but setting up dmlight fixed that problem, but did the same here, and still same results. Note clear why the gnome 3 worked from the live image, but the fedup upgrade to 19 it doesn't? because the live image does not use the nvidia BLOB driver? How would one get the fedup

Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200

2013-10-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject:Re: Fedora 19 Gnome 3 with Nvidia Geforce 5200 Am 08.10.2013 10:19, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II: Am 08.10.2013 09:37, schrieb Michael D. Setzer II: I have a classroom that currently has Fedora 17, and tested a machine booting from the livecd via flash

Re: gnome 3 desktop in 19

2013-10-04 Thread William Biggs
yes On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Jatin K ssh.fed...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 04 October 2013 05:16 AM, William Biggs wrote: I would like to know how to make gnome 3 in fedora 19 look stranded do you need FC classic mode..? sudo yum install gnome-classic-session (Reff. https

gnome 3 desktop in 19

2013-10-03 Thread William Biggs
I would like to know how to make gnome 3 in fedora 19 look stranded -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines

Re: gnome 3 desktop in 19

2013-10-03 Thread Jatin K
On Friday 04 October 2013 05:16 AM, William Biggs wrote: I would like to know how to make gnome 3 in fedora 19 look stranded do you need FC classic mode..? |sudo yum install gnome-classic-session (Reff. https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/28958/how-do-i-enable-gnome-38-classic-mode

Re: Black Windows in Gnome 3 (suddenly)

2013-09-27 Thread Carlos casep Sepulveda
On 25 September 2013 08:54, Manuel Escudero jmlev...@gmail.com wrote: I've been having a wierd error with GTK apps in Gnome 3 for a while now, Can anyone help? Here is the question at #AskFedora with more detailed infromation and a picture: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/32960/black

Re: Black Windows in Gnome 3 (suddenly)

2013-09-27 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Looks a lot like this https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9044 I experienced the same, it worked for me adding the Option AccelMethod sna on my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Thanks! That bug was driving me crazy; this seems to fix it. - Mike -- users mailing list

Black Windows in Gnome 3 (suddenly)

2013-09-25 Thread Manuel Escudero
I've been having a wierd error with GTK apps in Gnome 3 for a while now, Can anyone help? Here is the question at #AskFedora with more detailed infromation and a picture: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/32960/black-windows-in-gnome-3-suddenly/ Thanks! -- users mailing list users

Make mplayer default on GNOME 3

2013-09-21 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone, Where can I set the default application for video files in Fedora 19 (GNOME Shell)? I want to make mplayer (command line version) the default. So far I've tried: - right clicking the video file -- Open With ...but mplayer is not listed there - Settings -- Details -- Default

Re: Make mplayer default on GNOME 3

2013-09-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 03:32:03PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello everyone, Where can I set the default application for video files in Fedora 19 (GNOME Shell)? I want to make mplayer (command line version) the default. So far I've tried: - right clicking the video file -- Open With

Re: Make mplayer default on GNOME 3

2013-09-21 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 09/21/2013 04:32 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello everyone, Where can I set the default application for video files in Fedora 19 (GNOME Shell)? I want to make mplayer (command line version) the default. So far I've tried: - right clicking the video file -- Open With ...but mplayer is not

Re: Make mplayer default on GNOME 3 [SOLVED]

2013-09-21 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 09/21/2013 08:27 PM, Germán A. Racca wrote: Don't forget to update mimeapps.list in ~/.local/share/applications. Thank you Germán. You nailed it ! Best regards, Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

F19: Gnome 3 doesn't show full list of activities

2013-09-19 Thread antonio montagnani
I have installed a F19 on an old laptop with Nvidia G72M (Quadro NVS 110M/ Geforce Go 7300). Installed Gnome 3 but when I want to see all application instead of more frequent, nothing appears.I noticed also some artifacts on some windows. No problem when user starts LXDE instead of Gnome 3

Re: F19: Gnome 3 doesn't show full list of activities

2013-09-19 Thread antonio
antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 19/09/2013 17:16: I have installed a F19 on an old laptop with Nvidia G72M (Quadro NVS 110M/ Geforce Go 7300). Installed Gnome 3 but when I want to see all application instead of more frequent, nothing appears.I noticed also some

Fedora 19, Gnome 3, and Session Management

2013-09-11 Thread Gene Czarcinski
When I first updated to Fedora 19 I got a bit of a surprise. I have used a number of different desktops of the years but have settled on gnome. This included changing over to Gnome 3 and the gnome-shell when it became available. In previous years I had used session management

Re Gnome 3 groups or mailing list.

2013-08-21 Thread Bill Case
Hi; I have several small Gnome 3 issues I would like help with or discussion about. Has anybody found a good way to communicate with gnome 3 users or developers. I belong to the following: gnome-l...@gnome.org, Gnome forum, http://forums.worldofgnome.org, over the last few days I have

Re: Re Gnome 3 groups or mailing list.

2013-08-21 Thread bitlord
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:07:39 -0400 Bill Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Hi; I have several small Gnome 3 issues I would like help with or discussion about. Has anybody found a good way to communicate with gnome 3 users or developers. I belong to the following: gnome-l...@gnome.org

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-08-01 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Wednesday 31 July 2013 08:38:50 PM Eric Smith wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: It is impossible to recreate the experience of something else. If you want exact GNOME 2 experience, try using MATE. I don't want exact GNOME 2 experience. But I thought the whole point of Gnome 3 Classic Mode

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-08-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/31/2013 08:57 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I am not aware of the policy you are referring to. It sounds like a misunderstanding. Perhaps you can provide a reference? I don't know if it's an official policy or not, but I've read

How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Eric Smith
Is there some way to create launchers on the Gnome 3 Classic Mode panel, as was easily done in Gnome 2? I'm trying really hard to like Gnome 3 Classic Mode, but having a very difficult time of it, because it seems to only provide a superficial resemblance to the Gnome 2 desktop, without actually

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:13:13PM -0600, Eric Smith wrote: Is there some way to create launchers on the Gnome 3 Classic Mode panel, as was easily done in Gnome 2? I'm trying really hard to like Gnome 3 Classic Mode, but having a very difficult time of it, because it seems to only provide

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/31/2013 02:45 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: The classic mode in GNOME 3 is using gnome-shell, and I don't think it supports launchers, though IIRC there are extensions which allow you to do that. I don't know about anybody else, but I would consider the lack of support for launchers

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: I don't know about anybody else, but I would consider the lack of support for launchers to be a major regression. As noted before, it is supported via extensions https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/495/topicons/ Rahul -- users

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/31/2013 03:21 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: I don't know about anybody else, but I would consider the lack of support for launchers to be a major regression. As noted before, it is supported via extensions

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 03:36:38PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: Only until the Gnome devs change something that breaks them. What I don't understand is why they removed that functionality in the first place? Why discuss this for the 50th time on the same mailing list? I already provide everything

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/31/2013 04:15 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: It is not there, there is an extension, there is MATE. I didn't add a some people think GNOME developers are evil. That should cover it now IMO. Yes, I'm sure some do;I don't. There are a number of other adjectives I might use, but not that one.

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: Mostly, however, I think that they don't understand that not everybody who wants to use Gnome likes to do things the way they do, or if they do know, they don't care. They understand that just fine and that is why the

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Eric Smith
Olav Vitters wrote: It is impossible to recreate the experience of something else. If you want exact GNOME 2 experience, try using MATE. I don't want exact GNOME 2 experience. But I thought the whole point of Gnome 3 Classic Mode was to provide something with basically the same functionality

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/31/2013 08:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: They understand that just fine and that is why the extension system has been created and dozens and dozens of extensions exist and are widely used. Your fear about breakages are not realistic in recent releases. From the next release, extensions

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/31/2013 08:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: They understand that just fine and that is why the extension system has been created and dozens and dozens of extensions exist and are widely used. Your fear about breakages are not

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Eric Smith wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: It is impossible to recreate the experience of something else. If you want exact GNOME 2 experience, try using MATE. I don't want exact GNOME 2 experience. But I thought the whole point of Gnome 3 Classic Mode

Re: How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?

2013-07-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/31/2013 08:57 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I am not aware of the policy you are referring to. It sounds like a misunderstanding. Perhaps you can provide a reference? I don't know if it's an official policy or not, but I've read comments from people stating that the Gnome devs won't go

FC19 Battery 'remaining time' extension in gnome 3 gone?

2013-07-07 Thread William Murray
Hello all, In FC18 I used a nice gnome 3 extension which showed the remaining batter time on my laptop. This allowed remedial action if I accidentally did something stupid like turn the screen on max. It is marked 'outdated' in FC19, but I don't see a replacement. Does anyone know

Re: Gnome 3 in fallback mode for no apparent reason

2013-03-16 Thread Sanne Grinovero
On 16 March 2013 01:45, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 16.03.2013 02:36, schrieb Sanne Grinovero: The only common element I see in the two systems is that both have an NVidia video card and I'm forced to use the proprietary drivers because of other issues, but this worked

Gnome 3 in fallback mode for no apparent reason

2013-03-15 Thread Sanne Grinovero
Hi all, this morning when turning on my workstation (Fedora 18, 64 bit) it started Gnome 3 in fallback mode. I had shut it down the evening before while running in full mode and not made any change to the system: nor (known) configuration changes nor updates installed. Since that's pretty much

Re: Gnome 3 in fallback mode for no apparent reason

2013-03-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.03.2013 02:36, schrieb Sanne Grinovero: The only common element I see in the two systems is that both have an NVidia video card and I'm forced to use the proprietary drivers because of other issues, but this worked pretty well so far. and you are sure there was no kernel-update which

Gnome 3 with a splash of Awesome

2013-02-18 Thread Noah Cutler
After having sat on the fence with Fedora 14, fearing the worst in making the switch to Gnome 3, I must say, with Awesome for the WM, I am perfectly fine with Gnome providing the goods under the hood. xcalib is quite nice as well for inverting screen color (i.e. no more glaring white background

Fedora 18, Gnome 3, and the future of Compiz

2013-02-17 Thread Noah Cutler
Hey all, first post. Just installed Fedora 18 on a new Dell Precision series laptop. Gnome 3 looks gorgeous -- was on the fence for quite awhile with Fedora 14 due to the backlash Gnome 3 received post-launch. In regard to approximating a Gnome-Do/Compiz setup: 1) how is the multi-monitor

Re: Fedora 18, Gnome 3, and the future of Compiz

2013-02-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
on maintainer interest and assuming upstream continues to be active. However Compiz isn't usable within GNOME 3 since the entirely GNOME Shell UI is just a plugin for Mutter (a port of Metacity to Clutter) Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Fedora 18, Gnome 3, and the future of Compiz

2013-02-17 Thread Noah Cutler
Thanks for the cheat sheet, Rahul, useful. Almost there as far as Compiz goes -- if we could snap to grid with key bindings, that would be ideal. Using the mouse for these kinds of tasks is, IMO, not ideal, but I guess Gnome 3 is catering to the mobile/tablet user as well. I'll play around

Re: Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit and/or to gnome 3 please ?

2013-01-27 Thread Aaron Gray
On 27 January 2013 05:57, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone work on a macro recorder to work on Gnome 3 apps and update GEdit to use it please ? Aaron Aaron, You will have better luck

Re: Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit and/or to gnome 3 please ?

2013-01-27 Thread Aaron Gray
On 27 January 2013 05:09, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 01:03 +, Aaron Gray wrote: Could someone work on a macro recorder to work on Gnome 3 apps and update GEdit to use it please ? Aaron On 26 January 2013 17:13, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li

Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit and/or to gnome 3 please ?

2013-01-26 Thread Aaron Gray
Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit please ? Aaron -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question?

Re: Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit and/or to gnome 3 please ?

2013-01-26 Thread Aaron Gray
Could someone work on a macro recorder to work on Gnome 3 apps and update GEdit to use it please ? Aaron On 26 January 2013 17:13, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit please ? Aaron -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit and/or to gnome 3 please ?

2013-01-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 01:03 +, Aaron Gray wrote: Could someone work on a macro recorder to work on Gnome 3 apps and update GEdit to use it please ? Aaron On 26 January 2013 17:13, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit please

Re: Could someone add keystroke macros to gedit and/or to gnome 3 please ?

2013-01-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone work on a macro recorder to work on Gnome 3 apps and update GEdit to use it please ? Aaron Aaron, You will have better luck by posting your message on the GEdit mailing list http://projects.gnome.org

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:00:41PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: GNOME is not interested in their userbase and was never really In your view. so use KDE which is after the 4.0 disaster now really fine again sad that the ignorant GNOME developers did not learn from what happened with KDE 4.0

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-30 Thread Lailah
Hi, Happy New Year! You can install any of the other desktop spins like KDE, XFCE LXDE. And, plus of that, you can install a lot of other desktops like Cinnamon, Mate and Razor, aside of what you already have. Feel free of try and choose what you like most. Regards, Lailah

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-30 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 29-12-2012 a las 22:00 +0100, Reindl Harald escribió: Am 29.12.2012 21:05, schrieb Mika Suomalainen: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 20:57, Thomas Dineen wrote: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-30 Thread Lailah
is not to learn from mistakes I suspect that in the long run, Gnome 3 will be the best thing that ever happened for KDE, Xfce, MATE and all of the other Linux desktops. Yes, is probably true. Is a pity, I used to love Gnome... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Thomas Dineen
Gentle People: A heartfelt plea from a user: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable. Please read the justification below: I just installed, last night, Fedora 17

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/29/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: Gentle People: A heartfelt plea from a user: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable. Please read the justification below

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 20:57, Thomas Dineen wrote: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable. I don't think that the fallback mode

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2012/12/29 Mika Suomalainen mka...@outlook.com: I (or actually not me, but many people whom I know) have another problem with GNOME3, they don't know how to halt the computer properly, because the Shutdown button is hidden behind the menu in top-right and you must press alt to access the

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2012 21:05, schrieb Mika Suomalainen: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 20:57, Thomas Dineen wrote: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the Fall Back Mode in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Alan Cox
! 4) Gnome 3 crashes about once an hour under light loading. While Gnome 3 is pants in many respectss these actually sound like graphics driver bugs - what card and driver are you using ? Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Joe Zeff
mistakes I suspect that in the long run, Gnome 3 will be the best thing that ever happened for KDE, Xfce, MATE and all of the other Linux desktops. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 22:37 +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2012/12/29 Mika Suomalainen mka...@outlook.com: I (or actually not me, but many people whom I know) have another problem with GNOME3, they don't know how to halt the computer properly, because the Shutdown button is hidden behind

Re: Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Bradbury
of menu entries will go all wankers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that has lost horizontal sync. 3) Periodically the letters of the menus become a garbled to the point of being unreadable! 4) Gnome 3 crashes about once an hour under light loading. Thank You For Your Time. Thomas

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-24 Thread Kernel Guardian
no intention to initiate a new discussion on the usefulness of the GNOME 3 desktop environment. I just want to find a solution for my problem. In fact, I have a huge problem with OpenGL applications. The main window is always maximized at startup, although OpenGL context using the given size

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-24 Thread Kernel Guardian
http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/a-new-approach-to-gnome-application-design/ Talks about the default state for GNOME 3 applications. So, the that 'Documents' starts maximized. But it should remember the size you closed it. A random thing you run under GNOME 3 is not meant with GNOME 3

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-24 Thread Kernel Guardian
in their right mind thought that the average user wanted this? Of course, considering that this is Gnome 3 we're discussing, the question may well be redundant. Suggest to read the release notes. The one bit about maximized has: | When maximized, certain applications will now hide

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-23 Thread Olav Vitters
this? Of course, considering that this is Gnome 3 we're discussing, the question may well be redundant. Suggest to read the release notes. The one bit about maximized has: | When maximized, certain applications will now hide their title bar. | This ensures more space is available for the application

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