Re: Replacing gnome-shell on Fedora 15
On 06/25/2011 04:58 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Having tried (briefly!) gnome-shell on Fedora 14, its clear that I > won't be using it any time soon. Seems to me that the obvious solution > is to replace it with (my preferred) metacity as the default window > manager. Has anyone tried this? Be cautious with gnome-shell on f14. I was enthralled when I installed it. It kept my keyboard shortcuts and all of my customized behaviors. I really liked being able to bump my standard 4 desktops up to 9 or 16. Problems arose when I wanted to do something gnome2-ish (can't remember what). I looked for the option to disable gnome-shell but it can't be done. Simple solution since it is so small -- yum erase gnome-shell. Everything was gone. Ability to add anything to panels was gone. The desktop switcher was reduced to one desktop with your choice of how many rows you'd like it on. Basically destroyed the gnome2 environment. Only recourse was to backup my files, delete me as a user, re-add myself with the same uid/gid, then restore my files. My infatuation with gnome-shell went the way of all infatuations. Ta ta! Tread carefully, Mike Wright > > Thanks. > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Replacing gnome-shell on Fedora 15
Geoffrey Leach writes: Having tried (briefly!) gnome-shell on Fedora 14, its clear that I won't be using it any time soon. Seems to me that the obvious solution is to replace it with (my preferred) metacity as the default window manager. Has anyone tried this? The metacity fallback desktop on F15 is just gnome-shell lite; gnome-shell without desktop effects. Your best plan B is XFCE. It's a reasonable replacement. The biggest problem with XFCE is the lack of PackageKit integration, so you'll have to run it manually every week, or so, to pull in the latest updates. Other than that, it's a fine alternative. pgpLFW0fuukdS.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Replacing gnome-shell on Fedora 15
Having tried (briefly!) gnome-shell on Fedora 14, its clear that I won't be using it any time soon. Seems to me that the obvious solution is to replace it with (my preferred) metacity as the default window manager. Has anyone tried this? Thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
