On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:10 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a > virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 > feature by doing it that way :( > > The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes > the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very* quickly to the > left upper corner of the screen. Who knew? > > Well, I didn't know until yesterday because virtualbox allows the mouse > pointer to slide right off of the guest window onto my real desktop > without notifying the guest machine, apparently. > > Anyway, the active-left-upper-corner feature saves me one annoying extra > mouse-click when launching the apps I use all day long. That one extra > mouse-click was a major gnome3 "bug" for me, but now it's just a virtual > bug :)
There's an even faster way -- something I couldn't live without and possibly the only thing that makes Unity/Gnome3/Windows 8 usable to me: Press the "super" key (the Windows key on my keyboard by default, but it's configurable). I *hate* having to use my mouse so much to access programs and in *all three* of these interfaces I can avoid the mouse much more with the same shortcut. Check out the Gnome Shell cheat sheet[0] if you haven't already. > > For us old gnome2 farts who don't know where to begin with gnome3, I'd > suggest installing two gnome-shell extensions that may save you many > hours of bewilderment: > > First, the "settings center" extension, which exposes several important > sub-menus that are otherwise nearly impossible to find. > > Second, the "system-monitor" extension, which replaces the multiload > gnome-panel applet that I can't live without. The gnome extension > website offers several 'system-monitor' applets, but the one I'm now > using is the one written by 'darkxst'. So happy :) > > I strongly suggest emerging the 'alacarte' and 'gnome-tweak-tool' > packages from gnome-extra. They are not installed by default when > emerging 'gnome', but I couldn't use gnome without them. > > Happy to answer any gnome3 questions if I can. > > [0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet -- Alecks Gates
