On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 19:59, Stewart C. Russell via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2021-10-20 11:03, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > > > When a desktop going from version 2 to 3 throws away everything users > > are used to, and the developers simply don't care, then it deserves any > > hate it receives. > > Yup. The main reason for Gnome removing desktop icons was that the code > was buggy. They didn't ask the users whether they wanted the bugs fixed > or the icons gone. They picked the latter. TBH, I'm still mad at Gnome > for getting rid of the bar you could dismiss with a click and it made > the Strar Trek door noise. I think that went in Gnome 1.2 → Gnome 2.0 > > I've just switched to xubuntu. I think it uses XFCE. So far (10 minutes > in) it mostly works. It does fail on one thing, though: > > > Let me alt+tab between the windows. > > I can't seem to do that. And I can't cycle between workspaces, either. I > hope it's not because I'm using an Apple keyboard. It's the least > disappointing keyboard I've tried, but Linux barely understands it.
(Admittedly from memory:) try Ctrl-Alt-<left|right>-arrow-keys to change desktops. That is, of course, if you can find those keys on the Apple keyboard: Control-Option-arrow? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
