GNOME: Difference between revisions
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In March of 2010, I finally moved from my venerable XFCE4 + Xfwm setup to a glitzy GNOME + Compiz desktop. The experiment is largely successful thus far. | In March of 2010, I finally moved from my venerable XFCE4 + Xfwm setup to a glitzy GNOME + Compiz desktop. The experiment is largely successful thus far. | ||
==Disabling gnome-shell== | |||
gnome-shell, from what I can tell, is launched as part of the session definition file (/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop). You can copy this to gnome-fallback.session in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/gnome-session/sessions and run gnome-session out of .xsession without arguments, or (probably better) provide the --session argument to gnome-session and keep the modified file somewhere personal. | |||
==Screenlets== | ==Screenlets== | ||
* The terminology is apparently "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_engine Widget Engine]"? | * The terminology is apparently "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_engine Widget Engine]"? | ||
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** Spherical deformation on rotate | ** Spherical deformation on rotate | ||
** Inside-the-cube view | ** Inside-the-cube view | ||
* App Switcher | |||
** Maximize "Speed" | |||
** Minimize "Timestep" | |||
** Enable "Mipmap", "Bring to Front", "Icon", "Minimized", and "Auto-Rotate" | |||
** Reduce "Opacity" to 10 | |||
===Other Plugins=== | ===Other Plugins=== | ||
* I like the "animations" plugin | * I like the "animations" plugin | ||
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* Transparency can be had regardless of the GTK theme if using compiz's "Opacity, Brightness and Saturation" plugin | * Transparency can be had regardless of the GTK theme if using compiz's "Opacity, Brightness and Saturation" plugin | ||
** Add an opacity rule (I use a value of 50): "<tt>(class=Gnome-panel) & !(type=PopupMenu | Dialog)</tt>" | ** Add an opacity rule (I use a value of 50): "<tt>(class=Gnome-panel) & !(type=PopupMenu | Dialog)</tt>" | ||
* I use avant-window-navigator now | |||
==GNOME Control Center== | ==GNOME Control Center== | ||
* Ensure hinting and subpixel ordering is optimized via a trip to the [http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ Lagom LCD Test] page | * Ensure hinting and subpixel ordering is optimized via a trip to the [http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ Lagom LCD Test] page | ||