RE: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
> > My old laptop (the one I'm writing this on) has squeeze with gnome 2.30.2. > Is there anyway to get an actual gnome *desktop* on wheezy sans all this > metro-esque crap? MATE. Tell all your friends: http://mate-desktop.org http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-05-12 Thread Bill Wohler
cletusjenkins writes: > I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the > nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of > gnome. I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100 > android tablet instead of a powerful c

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:07 -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > I knew that GNOME Shell had won me over. Since GNOME still is alive, there seem to be many people using GNOME 3. I can't understand this ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:07:56AM -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > > I got quite used to GNOME 3. When I started mousing into the hot-corner on > non-GNOME systems, I knew that GNOME Shell had won me over. I find myself hitting the Super key all the time to do the same thing. > > But I'm still

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Ralf Mardorf >  > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:03:49 +0200, Morel Bérenger  > wrote: >> Maybe you could take a look at LXDE? There are still dependencies to GTK2 >> as XFCE, but those are not Gnome deps... > > I'll switch to another DE, as soon as I've got more time for the > computer.

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:03:49 +0200, Morel Bérenger wrote: Maybe you could take a look at LXDE? There are still dependencies to GTK2 as XFCE, but those are not Gnome deps... I'll switch to another DE, as soon as I've got more time for the computer. At the moment I've got unpleasant things to

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread Steven Rosenberg
Until the motherboard died, I had both GNOME 3 and Xfce on my Wheezy laptop, and I'd go between one and the other. I got quite used to GNOME 3. When I started mousing into the hot-corner on non-GNOME systems, I knew that GNOME Shell had won me over. But I'm still using Xfce from time to time. It

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 24 avril 2013 7:56, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > > On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:08 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > >> xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. > > Xfce4 has got to many GNOME dependencies. I'm using it since years, but > I don't like it, I just couldn't find a good DE until now. Things

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-24 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:56:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:08 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: >> xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. > >Xfce4 has got to many GNOME dependencies. I'm using it since years, but >I don't like it, I just couldn't find a good DE until now. Thing

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:08 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. Xfce4 has got to many GNOME dependencies. I'm using it since years, but I don't like it, I just couldn't find a good DE until now. Things for Xfce4 are as often broken, as they are for GNOME, assumed

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Anthony Serio
Why don't you try installing MATE? There is a MATE repo available for Wheezy: 'deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian wheezy main' Just be sure to apt-get install the mate-archive-keyring package. I'm not sure if you've heard of MATE or not, but basically it's a fork of Gnome 2 develo

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: cletusjenkins >  > I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the > nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of > gnome. > I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100 android > tablet instead of a p

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread David Christensen
On 04/23/13 19:08, cletusjenkins wrote: > I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of gnome. ... > I installed several other desktops... > xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. My newest

Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-04-23 Thread cletusjenkins
I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of gnome. I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100 android tablet instead of a powerful computer. I can't customize anyt