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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:10 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> 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 |
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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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There's an even faster way -- something I couldn't live without and |
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possibly the only thing that makes Unity/Gnome3/Windows 8 usable to |
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me: Press the "super" key (the Windows key on my keyboard by default, |
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but it's configurable). I *hate* having to use my mouse so much to |
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access programs and in *all three* of these interfaces I can avoid the |
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mouse much more with the same shortcut. Check out the Gnome Shell |
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cheat sheet[0] if you haven't already. |
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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. |
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[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet |
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