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On 14/12/13 12:10, walt wrote: |
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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 feature |
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> by doing it that way :( |
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> The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes the |
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> favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very* quickly to the left |
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> 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 without |
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> 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 hours |
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> 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 website |
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> offers several 'system-monitor' applets, but the one I'm now using is the |
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> one written by 'darkxst'. So happy :) |
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> I strongly suggest emerging the 'alacarte' and 'gnome-tweak-tool' packages |
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> from gnome-extra. They are not installed by default when emerging 'gnome', |
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> but I couldn't use gnome without them. |
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> Happy to answer any gnome3 questions if I can. |
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Just for reference, I don't think the hot-corner issue a bug but a result of |
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how it operates. |
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If i'm not mistaken, the hot corner has to be activated by the mouse cursor |
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actually hitting the corner. With the typical way the virtual machine works, |
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with the mouse not actually 'entering' the environment, it's almost impossible |
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to hit the corner properly as it transitions seamlessly between the guest and |
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the host. |
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Two ways to address this are to use the virtual machine in fullscreen mode |
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(meaning that the corner really is the corner) or to have the virtual machine |
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fully capture the mouse (requiring it to be released by use of the 'host' key |
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(generally Right-CTRL). |
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If you can, give it a try and let me know if it works :) |
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wraeth |
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