Silly question: is gnome-terminal transparency removed in distros that are not
Ubuntu ?
It's really useful when you quickly put the terminal on top of the browser and
type stuff based on whats underneath.
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On , Stuart Axon <stua...@yahoo.com> wrote:
The error dialogs DO bother me ... I have no idea what they meant ... and the
same ones happen on an install of ubuntu on a VM that is only a couple months
old, as the laptop.
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>I love gnome, on the other hand I have a funny urge to make a timeline of all
>the features that were added and removed from nautilus over the years, but I
>think there is enough bashing of gnome from all quarters.
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>As soon as I get time I'll try some of the suggested live cds .. it's just...
>really boring configuring things all the time, then redoing it again.
>Meh, I don't like people moaning on the net and here I am ... if I find a
>distro that works I'll collate all the rants.
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>I even got as far as trying to use jhbuild... but differet versions of ubuntu
>seemed to fail
because of missing .pc files. .. etc etc... really getting to the point
where it's getting hard to care.
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>S++
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>On Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:23 PM, Bazon Bloch <bazonbl...@arcor.de> wrote:
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>No such problems on arch.
>>One of the reasons I moved away from ubuntu was the bad Gnome-Shell
>>integration (only using heavy patched Gnome-Software), I can imagine is it
>>still as bad.
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>>2014-03-16 20:53 GMT+01:00 Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org>:
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>>On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 10:43 -0700, Stuart Axon wrote:
>>>> I'm not convinced this is purely an ubuntu thing, I'd be willling to
>>>> try a different one if there is a live cd with gnome shell I will test
>>>> it on that too.
>>>> I'll try upgrading to 14.04 and see what happens too
>>>
>>>> [Please ignore this slight rant:]
>>>> I think I'm coming to the end of my patience with Ubuntu -
>>>
>>>Good, I hope MANY people loose patience with Ubuntu. Ubuntu has done
>>>more damage to the idea of an Open desktop than all the Internet trolls
>>>combined.
>>>
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>>>> My experience is thus:
>>>> Turn on computer
>>>> Login with GDM
>>>> Close about 8 "a system problem occurred" dialogues (not sure if that
>>>> is the actual text).
>>>
>>>And *THIS* does not bother you? I see ZERO "a system problem occurred"
>>>dialogs. Perhaps you could address the problem these are reporting?
>>>Seeing errors upon login is already a rather bad sign.
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>>>> Now, from there - gnome shell is good, I like it (I don't mind other
>>>> people can't use my computer (they're learning though).
>>>> Then, often I try and play an FLV video (in a player/browser/doesn't
>>>> matter) - after about 2 minutes it will do the freezing thing, which I
>>>> can battle past and fix - funnily only for long videos, music is
>>>> usually OK.
>>>
>>>There is something unique to your setup occurring here, I have watched
>>>hours of video while running GNOME Shell.
>>>
>>>
>>>> When the computer wakes up from hibernate the fans sometimes go full
>>>> blast I have to turn off the computer unplug it and take the batteries
>>>> out, sometimes after that they are still FULL(!) - so I do it again
>>>> and it behaves.
>>>
>>>Can you view the computer's reported temperatures?
>>>
>>>
>>>> TL;DR:
>>>> I've been on gnome since before 1.0 and Ubuntu since Dapper, it is
>>>> such a pain I might just get a mac, which is a shame as really think
>>>> libre software is important and am adamantly cross platform in the
>>>> code I care about.
>>>
>>>Your experience is not normal.
>>>
>>>
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>>>Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
>>>Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA
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