Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: ... RHEL7 ... Fixing Gnome 3 Classic ... vs ... Will MATE survive ... On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 07:39:43AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I searched gnome resize disable. I saw many responses, but am too clueless to know if any help your

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-09 Thread Galen Seitz
On 07/09/15 09:47, Keith Lofstrom wrote: P.S. regards XFCE and others - interesting options, but the distro I run (Scientific Linux) is tied to GNOME, and I do not want to give up hundreds of useful packages and addons in an attempt to escape Gnome 3 foolishness. When the providers of

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-09 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:14:19AM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: On 07/09/15 09:47, Keith Lofstrom wrote: P.S. regards XFCE and others - interesting options, but the distro I run (Scientific Linux) is tied to GNOME, and I do not want to give up hundreds of useful packages and addons in an

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 07/07/2015 11:41 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Gnome 3, Gnome Classic, and Cinnamon /all/ share the same arrogant feature - all your edges are belong to us. Move the mouse to the upper left corner (where a full screen CAD tool might be using the pixels) and bang, you are in the desktop pager.

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Pete Lancashire wrote: -pete sigh .. wonder if one can get CDE for Linux ? Yep: http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/ FWIW, Xfce4 was designed to emulate CDE. While there have been many additions, all of the system can be installed or not. There's a way to

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-08 Thread Pete Lancashire
Keith I 200% feel the pain. It seems that Gnome, KDE et.al. have been infected by the same virus that engulfs all of Redmond Washington. But I can't really say its origin is from within the halls of Microsoft. But I can say and believe it is predominantly a disease of American origin. Some

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-08 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I searched gnome resize disable. I saw many responses, but am too clueless to know if any help your issue. -Denis On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com wrote: I've been to busy to fool with Gnome 3 for a while, but I'm assembling my I really HATE this, how

Re: [PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-08 Thread Darren Couch
My .02 cents - go to XFCE or LXDE, or compile DWM and go tiled. Life is too short to convince the Gnome or KDE teams that they messed up. With your use model being 20 some odd virtual desktops it would seem that a tiled manager would fit your need a lot better. EPEL is your friend if you are

[PLUG] Mate vs Gnome Classic with fixes

2015-07-08 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I've been to busy to fool with Gnome 3 for a while, but I'm assembling my I really HATE this, how do I fix it? list. I do not appreciate strangers rearranging my desktop papers. When I first encountered Linux and Gnome, years ago, I fell in love with virtual desktops and Gnome Original - I use