Positive tips and help for GNOME 3 please

[Misha Shnurapet]

27.05.2011, 06:41, "Steve Searle" <steve at stevesearle.com>:
> I'd like to start a thread to help me, and hopefully others use GNOME 3
> more effectively. I've used it for a day now, its very different and
> will take me a while to get used to it. However past experience with
> other new things (e.g. selinux) has shown me that both they, and I
> improve and I do want to try to get on with GNOME 3. So if you have any
> particular tips, or similar, please post them here.
>
> I would like to keep this focused on positive tips, so would urge
> complaints, rants, frustrations to be posted separately.
>
> Anyway to get the ball rolling. To quickly bring up the Activities menu,
> press the "Windows" key. And Esc will take you out of it.

That's a good call, Steve. I love the new GNOME and prefer to explore it in a way that amuses me.

For instance, I use Suspend to turn my computer on and off instantly. As an alternative, to access Shutdown and turn it off completely, you hold the Alt key while in the same menu.

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Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor
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