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On 05/09/2013 14:51, gevisz wrote: |
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> Usually, when I open a new window frame in Gnome 2, I have a Close, |
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> Maximize/Restore and Minimize buttons on its upper-right corner. |
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> Sometimes, however, especially when I open a supplementary window frame |
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> from a running program, its upper (text) bar contains only the Close |
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> button with no possibility to maximize the window frame to the whole |
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> screen, and it is extremely inconvenient. |
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> I do remember that I had a similar problem in Gnome 2 under Ubuntu but |
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> somehow managed to get to the configuration where almost all my windows |
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> had Maximize/Restore and Minimize buttons. The only exception was the |
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> Firefox sub-window to save a bookmark. :^( |
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> Just now, I have tries FXCE and found out that it opens all the |
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> sub-windows with the Maximize/Restore, Close and Minimize buttons "out |
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> of the box" and without recompilation of all the programs that do not do |
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> the same in Gnome (except for the Firefox bookmark sub-window, of course). |
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> However, I am reluctant to migrate to FXCE right now because at the |
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> moment I cannot achieve the same look-and-feel as in my Gnome |
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> (especially, I miss the the all-in-one clock-calendar-weather applet |
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> with the world map showing the daytime at different locations). |
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> Could anybody advise me how to get the Close, Maximize/Restore and |
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> Minimize buttons in all window frames in Gnome 2. |
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I think the true answer is |
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"You can't. The Gnome devs know better than you what you want" |
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I'm happy to be proved wrong though. |
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If it bothers you, just migrate to XFCE and deal with the pain. It will |
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last only a short time. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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