Re: Cheap PCI graphic cards for GNOME Shell

2011-06-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 22:27, Jeff Fortin web.ki...@free.fr wrote: I'll be using whatever open source drivers are available (that probably means the r300/r400/r500/r600 free Radeon drivers or the Nouveau drivers, Of the two, radeon is generally in the better state. You'll want to look here:

Re: Cheap PCI graphic cards for GNOME Shell

2011-06-13 Thread Evandro Giovanini
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Jeff Fortin web.ki...@free.fr wrote: Hey there, Most of my family members run cheap desktops from 5-10 years ago. Intel 865 or older graphics. No AGP or PCI-E ports. I'm looking for recommendations for graphic cards that - Can run GNOME Shell in a fluid

Gnome Shell Extension : Force Quit

2011-06-13 Thread xtranophilist aaa
This is an extension that adds a 'Force Quit' button to gnome panel. Double click this and click over a non-responding application to kill it instantly. The cursor changes to a 'x' after you've double clicked it and when ready to select the application to be killed. It is made to require fast

Re: Gnome Shell Extension : Force Quit

2011-06-13 Thread xtranophilist aaa
Looks like single click does it too, not expected! On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 20:09, xtranophilist aaa xtranophil...@gmail.comwrote: This is an extension that adds a 'Force Quit' button to gnome panel. Double click this and click over a non-responding application to kill it instantly. The

Re: Experiences with Gnome 3: Panel and Workspaces

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Chorley
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 18:03 +0200, David Prieto wrote: Paul, So, what to do in the Activities view? I would suggest moving the right-hand workspace switcher to the bottom. The message tray is taking that space now. What would you do about that? Hi David, Thanks

Re: Cheap PCI graphic cards for GNOME Shell

2011-06-13 Thread Naheem Zaffar
On 13 June 2011 18:20, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 23:27 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for graphic cards that - Can run GNOME Shell in a fluid manner - Are PCI (not PCI express or AGP) - Are dirt cheap/easy to find

Re: Workspaces off the grid

2011-06-13 Thread Alan Schmitz
On 06/13/2011 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:  I use Fedora, so that is my reference frame. With Fedora 14, it   seemed that the workspaces would lead into each other (I used Compviz so perhaps if I used now compviz, it still would). When I upgraded to Fedora 15, that went away and now it

Re: Gnome 3 Extensions/Themes Website?

2011-06-13 Thread Bidossessi SODONON
Option 1: We don't control the situation: - People package up extensions in distributions - There's no version mechanism or update mechanism, so when you update the shell, your extensions get out of sync, and start causing your shell to misbehave I have to disagree here,

Re: Workspaces off the grid

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Now I'm finding that I'm constantly defining spaces rather than just using them. What's worse I'm constantly scanning all of the spaces looking for applications, because muscle memory doesn't work any more because there's no spatial point of reference. Yes. Is there a keyboard short cut

Re: Workspaces off the grid

2011-06-13 Thread Artur Wroblewski
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Alan Schmitz a...@ankeny.net wrote: [...] Now I'm finding that I'm constantly defining spaces rather than just using them. i have exactly the same problem. [...] If a workspace isn't a place any more, what is it?  I need a new mental image.  What has the

Re: Cheap PCI graphic cards for GNOME Shell

2011-06-13 Thread Onyeibo Oku
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:57 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: Except that it hurts my environmentally-conscious self to throw away those desktop machines that are in working order, just lacking a good video card. +1, we share same mindset here eBay listings for PCI video cards are generally