Re:Don't waste your time with GNOME 3.6
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I used to do the exact same thing re: the desktops, but as I said, I kept just popping up terminals on the screen I was on until I'd made a total mess of it. The interesting thing about gnome 3's system is that switch desktop only switches the main monitor unless you have a plugin installed, which means I now have right screen - what I'm working on now, left screen - all the other stuff (eg. email in one desktop, browser in another, music player in another). I normally have 6 or 7 open by the end of the day. Then after changing a few keyboard shortcuts, I can flip between them as needed.
The cool thing about the above is that you can drag a window into the left monitor as a sort of holding pen so you can switch the other desktop and keep that window on screen. So if something comes up in my email that needs me to check something on the web, I open the email into a new window, drag it to the right screen, then switch the left to the browser. It's a different approach, but once I was used to it I didn't want to go back. Incidentally, I came from KDE 4 which I'd used since KDE 2, with a brief spell using ION 3 which I quit when the author started acting like a dick:-)
would it be possible for this post to contain responses which don't just say which desktop they're using instead? I don't bounce on the mate posts and say HAHAHAHAHA MATE IS SHIT, I'M USING GNOME 3!!! honestly, get over it. If mate makes you happy, then stop whining and use it. I was hoping to read some interesting stuff about what's actually in 3.6 here. that "offtopic" flag is being seriously underused here.
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I actually really like Gnome 3, but hate Unity. Go figure:-) I never used icons on my desktop anyway (there's windows in the way.. it's a silly place to put them), I stuck with the auto-new-desktop feature and now use it far more efficiently than just having 4 where I kept putting windows onto the wrong desktop and ended up not being able to find the damn thing (gnome forces you to spend a couple of seconds planning where to put stuff, which saves you time/confusion in the long run), and I cannot live without focus-follows-mouse, which ubuntu has not only removed, but made virtually impossible to put back without buggering up the menus.
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How is this insightful? It was inevitable that the first comment on here would be an unhelpful "WAAAH, I DON'T LIKE GNOME" comment. To be insightful, it would need to contain something we've not seen over and over and over again.
You want to be careful with that on image search. I once did a search, admittedly for pedobear cartoons, and some actual child porn came up. I was at work. You've never seen the ctrl-w button being hit so bloody fast. (and yes, I did report it to the IWF later).
sometimes you just accidentally hit the wrong key, and a Justin Bieber video pops up. It's virtually impossible to finish one off to Justin Bieber. Not impossible I might say, just difficult.
I once fixed someone's computer and found his porn stash on there (it wasn't exactly well hidden). There was gigabytes of it... ALL of which was facial cumshots. Definitely a clear interest in that one.
"180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa" is a statement, followed by an order to move out of africa. Honestly, is it that hard to type two extra characters and turn the comma into an 'and'?
I like the way that my comment cruised up to 5: informative when people with a sense of humour (poor guy clicking for a fourth time) GOT the joke, then loads of people going "no, this is slashdot. this is getting in the way of my beard growing time" shit. hats off to the people who ranked it as informative. you guys:-D
in the UK the NHS covers england and wales and northern ireland but not scotland I believe.
All four are under different authorities. Is it better to live in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales? Well, that depends what disease you've got...
in the UK, we pay less on average than the US, and yet we live longer. Although the "value for money" prize currently goes to singapore which has a mix of public and private healthcare, that's the one statistic you can't argue with.
Well that's where they went wrong. Whenever these things happen, developers leave in droves anyway and start new development houses, until they're bought again. Most game developers have some sort of idea for a game, and this is usually how it happens.
There's something *very* wrong with your setup if you need to hold down alt for right-click to work. I've never had to do that. Only time I use alt in combination with the mouse is to move windows by clicking anywhere in them rather than hitting the title bar. Yes... I clicked on an icon so that they have context. you don't get contextual menus without context.
Are you sure you're not using unity, not gnome 3? Unity has the alt-right-click thing because of its dumb sidebar (I hate unity with a vengeance.. if you have 2 terminals open and click one to bring it to the front, it brings all of them up. only way to bring one up is with alt-tab/alt-`. Plus focus-follows-mouse doesn't work and is marked as "wontfix" in unity). In gnome, it just works as far as I've seen. I've never heard of what you're talking about outside unity, which isn't really gnome 3.
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I used to do the exact same thing re: the desktops, but as I said, I kept just popping up terminals on the screen I was on until I'd made a total mess of it. The interesting thing about gnome 3's system is that switch desktop only switches the main monitor unless you have a plugin installed, which means I now have right screen - what I'm working on now, left screen - all the other stuff (eg. email in one desktop, browser in another, music player in another). I normally have 6 or 7 open by the end of the day. Then after changing a few keyboard shortcuts, I can flip between them as needed.
The cool thing about the above is that you can drag a window into the left monitor as a sort of holding pen so you can switch the other desktop and keep that window on screen. So if something comes up in my email that needs me to check something on the web, I open the email into a new window, drag it to the right screen, then switch the left to the browser. It's a different approach, but once I was used to it I didn't want to go back. Incidentally, I came from KDE 4 which I'd used since KDE 2, with a brief spell using ION 3 which I quit when the author started acting like a dick :-)
would it be possible for this post to contain responses which don't just say which desktop they're using instead? I don't bounce on the mate posts and say HAHAHAHAHA MATE IS SHIT, I'M USING GNOME 3!!! honestly, get over it. If mate makes you happy, then stop whining and use it. I was hoping to read some interesting stuff about what's actually in 3.6 here. that "offtopic" flag is being seriously underused here.
I actually really like Gnome 3, but hate Unity. Go figure :-) I never used icons on my desktop anyway (there's windows in the way.. it's a silly place to put them), I stuck with the auto-new-desktop feature and now use it far more efficiently than just having 4 where I kept putting windows onto the wrong desktop and ended up not being able to find the damn thing (gnome forces you to spend a couple of seconds planning where to put stuff, which saves you time/confusion in the long run), and I cannot live without focus-follows-mouse, which ubuntu has not only removed, but made virtually impossible to put back without buggering up the menus.
How is this insightful? It was inevitable that the first comment on here would be an unhelpful "WAAAH, I DON'T LIKE GNOME" comment. To be insightful, it would need to contain something we've not seen over and over and over again.
Like a mortgage, or some hot share tips.
I've never clicked that...
You want to be careful with that on image search. I once did a search, admittedly for pedobear cartoons, and some actual child porn came up. I was at work. You've never seen the ctrl-w button being hit so bloody fast. (and yes, I did report it to the IWF later).
either that, or he likes to check his email while he's at it.
Just project it onto your neighbour's wall.
sometimes you just accidentally hit the wrong key, and a Justin Bieber video pops up. It's virtually impossible to finish one off to Justin Bieber. Not impossible I might say, just difficult.
I once fixed someone's computer and found his porn stash on there (it wasn't exactly well hidden). There was gigabytes of it... ALL of which was facial cumshots. Definitely a clear interest in that one.
Then Mo stole his idea and became famous, right?
It could be more in tune with getting people to interact with their computers more. I recently had this conversation with my mother:
"why didn't you just click that?"
"I've never tried that button"
"why not?"
"I didn't know what it does"
"that's all the more reason to try it"
John, if a girl asks you what you do for a living, just tell her you're an accountant.
"180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa" is a statement, followed by an order to move out of africa. Honestly, is it that hard to type two extra characters and turn the comma into an 'and'?
I like the way that my comment cruised up to 5: informative when people with a sense of humour (poor guy clicking for a fourth time) GOT the joke, then loads of people going "no, this is slashdot. this is getting in the way of my beard growing time" shit. hats off to the people who ranked it as informative. you guys :-D
All four are under different authorities. Is it better to live in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales? Well, that depends what disease you've got...
in the UK, we pay less on average than the US, and yet we live longer. Although the "value for money" prize currently goes to singapore which has a mix of public and private healthcare, that's the one statistic you can't argue with.
it must be strange to pay tax all your life and not get healthcare when you need it. pretty backwards 3rd world shit if you ask me.
wow.. it must be really high up there
Well that's where they went wrong. Whenever these things happen, developers leave in droves anyway and start new development houses, until they're bought again. Most game developers have some sort of idea for a game, and this is usually how it happens.
A file server you have to pay for? What exactly did rapidshare innovate in their entire existence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ :D
There's something *very* wrong with your setup if you need to hold down alt for right-click to work. I've never had to do that. Only time I use alt in combination with the mouse is to move windows by clicking anywhere in them rather than hitting the title bar. Yes... I clicked on an icon so that they have context. you don't get contextual menus without context.
Are you sure you're not using unity, not gnome 3? Unity has the alt-right-click thing because of its dumb sidebar (I hate unity with a vengeance.. if you have 2 terminals open and click one to bring it to the front, it brings all of them up. only way to bring one up is with alt-tab/alt-`. Plus focus-follows-mouse doesn't work and is marked as "wontfix" in unity). In gnome, it just works as far as I've seen. I've never heard of what you're talking about outside unity, which isn't really gnome 3.
Also my condolences that your mouse doesn't work.
Well I right click on icons and get a menu. What are you missing?