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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2013/9/6 gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> |
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>> 2013/9/5 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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>>> |
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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 |
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>>> > do |
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>>> > the same in Gnome (except for the Firefox bookmark sub-window, of |
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>>> > 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 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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>>> |
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>> Currently, Gnome works better than Xfce for me, because so far |
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>> 1) I found no way to switch keyboard layout from English to any other |
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>> language (while Gnome and DWM do this after tackling with evdev |
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>> configs), |
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>> 2) Gnome allows more combinations for hot key bindings, for example, |
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>> I can not assign <Win>+<Shift>+<any letter> to any program launcher |
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>> in Fxce, while it does work in Gnome, |
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>> 3) installing Orange in FXCE involves unmasking some dependent |
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>> packages, but I like to stick to the stable thread. |
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>> All in all, I do understand why Linus said that Xfce is a step back |
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>> compared to Gnome 2 |
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>> (but I still have not got why Xfce is a big step forward compared with |
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>> Gnome 3 :^), as |
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>> have not tried it so far). |
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>> P.S. I will probably post a separate question, but if somebody can |
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>> explain how to setup language keyboad layout switch in Fxce, |
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>> you are welcome. :^) |
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>> I set up toggling the keyboard layout to <rWin> key in |
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>> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf as follows: |
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>> Option "XkbOptions" |
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>> "grp:rwin_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" |
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>> It works for Gnome and DWM but not for Xfce. :^( |
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>> Moreover, I need the keyboard layout indicator somewhere on the |
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>> Xfce panel, |
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>> but could not find any. |
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> A short update: after installing xfce4-xkb-plugin, which was not included in |
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> the xfce4-meta package |
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> (and I did not noticed it earlier), I finally got a keyboard layout |
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> indicator. At first, it did not work, that is, |
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> I could not switch a keyboard layout in no way. However, later, after |
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> changing some of the plugin's |
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> settings, it suddenly started to switch the keyboard layout. Interestingly, |
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> the applet continued to switch |
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> the keyboard layout even after I have changed all its settings to the |
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> original ones. Magically, the <rWin> |
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> key also started to switch the keyboard layout. |
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> So, my first and most important objection against Xfce4 is no more valid. |
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> The third one is not |
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> so important. Only the second is a bit annoying but one can live with it. |
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> :^) |
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> Now, my Xfce4 looks almost like my Gnome2. Its weather applet is even more |
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> informative. :^) |
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If you want GNOME 2, you should try MATE. GNOME 2 is unsupported; It's |
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been years since somebody actually worked on it. Bugs, bitrot and |
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security vulnerabilities are probably (if not surely) present in the |
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code base. |
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MATE supposedly tries to keep GNOME 2 alive (although its homepage is down). |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |