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Lobotomizing Gnome

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Re: Lobotomizing Gnome

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Gnome also works like that

Yes but it has to replace your desktop with a checkerboard of launchers, which might be a thing whose effect ranges from unnecessary but harmless to annoying and confusing, especially when it lags.

In this case you can install https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/ to get something similar in gnome (but I have to admit that I've never used unity)

Re: Lobotomizing Gnome

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Emacs uses Control and Meta. That makes Super a very useful key to map custom functions to.

Mine still works, just the bare key press that opens the start menu.

That's true, but when you use the key a lot it often happens that you press it and then release it. It's very annoying

Also, the hardcoding of super-o is even more annoying.

I also noticed that in recent versions of Gnome, super-s doesn't work anymore. I have no explanation for that one.

Re: Lobotomizing Gnome

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Arch is insanely stable given it uses rolling updates. I'm not quite sure how they pull it off. I've had far worse problems with Fedora and Ubuntu, which sometimes are not even fixable because you can't easily update to the latest upstream releases (most noticeably with the kernel). On Arch, I run `pacman -Syu` every month and my system stays up to date with basically no downtime.

Does Arch have anything similar to Ubuntu/Debian's Alternatives System [1][2]? This is very useful for managing different versions of the same package/s and I tend to rely on it for a number of things. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives [2]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/update-alte...

You can freeze package versions, and there are also archives of older packages. But generally most of the repos only have the latest released packages.

Re: Lobotomizing Gnome

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Mine still works, just the bare key press that opens the start menu.

That's true, but when you use the key a lot it often happens that you press it and then release it. It's very annoying Also, the hardcoding of super-o is even more annoying. I also noticed that in recent versions of Gnome, super-s doesn't work anymore. I have no explanation for that one.

Bummer. Well perhaps Mate is a good choice then. I'm enjoying it though still a bit lacking compared to Windows 2k, sigh.
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