Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Sep 13 09:20:49 UTC 2011


On 09/12/2011 07:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 11:05 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
>> Wow.  Thank you.  I was hesitant to try KDE after reading about 4.x, but
>> XFCE has brought most of the snappiness back to my machine.
> 
> There's an old trick that most of the early window managers used that I 
> hadn't seen in years until I tried XFCE: the context menu you get when 
> you right-click on the desktop contains your complete main menu, 
> including Preferences and Administration.  No more need to go over to 
> the panel to launch a program or control panel, just right-click 
> wherever your mouse happens to be.  Lack of it isn't a show-stopper, of 
> course, but once you get used to it, it's very convenient.  I mention it 
> mostly because you may not have found it yet.

I certainly hadn't.  Mind you, I haven't seen my desktop for years.  I
suppose it must be under there somewhere...

Andrew.


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