GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Tue Aug 30 20:17:00 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:36 -0600, Julius Smith wrote: 
> I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the
> whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2.  Things got better once
> I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu,
> etc., to recover lost functionality.  In my opinion, Fedora should be
> aimed at "power users" not "newbies".  That said, I like throwing
> windows to the left and right to fill half the screen, cycling through
> windows of a given app (Alt-`) as easily as cycling through apps
> (Alt-Tab), and generally saving screen space.  Once I got my "Custom
> Shortcuts" in place, I have few complaints (other than the
> freezing-emacs bug).  In general, using the mouse is slow, so we need
> to be able to define a shortcut for everything. - jos
> 

I don't think I've hit the "freezing-emacs bug".  What triggers it?
What's the BZ #?

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu



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