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I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a |
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virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 |
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feature by doing it that way :( |
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The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes |
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the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very* quickly to the |
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left upper corner of the screen. Who knew? |
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Well, I didn't know until yesterday because virtualbox allows the mouse |
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pointer to slide right off of the guest window onto my real desktop |
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without notifying the guest machine, apparently. |
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Anyway, the active-left-upper-corner feature saves me one annoying extra |
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mouse-click when launching the apps I use all day long. That one extra |
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mouse-click was a major gnome3 "bug" for me, but now it's just a virtual |
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bug :) |
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For us old gnome2 farts who don't know where to begin with gnome3, I'd |
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suggest installing two gnome-shell extensions that may save you many |
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hours of bewilderment: |
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First, the "settings center" extension, which exposes several important |
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sub-menus that are otherwise nearly impossible to find. |
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Second, the "system-monitor" extension, which replaces the multiload |
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gnome-panel applet that I can't live without. The gnome extension |
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website offers several 'system-monitor' applets, but the one I'm now |
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using is the one written by 'darkxst'. So happy :) |
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I strongly suggest emerging the 'alacarte' and 'gnome-tweak-tool' |
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packages from gnome-extra. They are not installed by default when |
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emerging 'gnome', but I couldn't use gnome without them. |
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Happy to answer any gnome3 questions if I can. |