Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-16 Thread mindrunner
This was my thread right before switching to lxde http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-928750-start-0.html i assume that everything is correct in my system. sometimes i use the one driver, sometimes the other. both have advantages against the other one, but gnome3 experience is always HELL. (fg

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread walt
On 10/15/2012 12:40 PM, mindrunner wrote: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] Are you using the proprietary ati drivers? (x11-drivers/ati-drivers) If yes, does fgl_glxgears run okay? On 10/15/2012 02:23 PM, walt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread mindrunner
you should try terminator, or guake if you want an "alternate" terminal. i am using both in combination (guake in luman-overlay, has applied some additional patches) lxde/openbox is very nice. slim and slimlock are working fine in combination with it. so there is no need for heavy gnome/kde deskto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread mindrunner
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] i7-820QM 8GB-DDR3 On 10/15/2012 02:23 PM, walt wrote: > On 10/15/2012 12:24 AM, mindrunner wrote: > >> Ive had soo many problem with gnome 3 (mainly performance), so i >> switche

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread Jakub Daniel
Try tabbed with urxvt (for example, or any other embeddable terminal) see suckless.org for more info about tabbed Jakub On 15 October 2012 21:14, Thanasis wrote: > on 10/15/2012 05:41 PM Randolph Maaßen wrote the following: >> By the way, I got used to tabbing terminal.in >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread Thanasis
on 10/15/2012 05:41 PM Randolph Maaßen wrote the following: > By the way, I got used to tabbing terminal.in > gnome-terminal, does someone know a tabbing terminal without gnome or > kde or something this big? Try x11-terms/terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread Randolph Maaßen
On Oct 15, 2012 2:59 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:23:44 -0700, walt wrote: > > > In fact, I blame all the new problems with both gnome3 and kde4 > > on video compositing. All the whiz-bang kids doing desktop > > development are determined to use compositing anywhere they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:23:44 -0700, walt wrote: > In fact, I blame all the new problems with both gnome3 and kde4 > on video compositing. All the whiz-bang kids doing desktop > development are determined to use compositing anywhere they can > possibly use it, even if it's silly. KDE has a checkb

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread walt
On 10/15/2012 12:24 AM, mindrunner wrote: Ive had soo many problem with gnome 3 (mainly performance), so i switched to lxde. The performance penalty can be due to old video hardware because both gnome-shell and cinnamon use video compositing for silly and unnecessary stuff like transparent win