[GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:59:49PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> Yup. The main reason for Gnome removing desktop icons was that the code was
> buggy. They didn't ask the users whether they wanted the bugs fixed or the
> icons gone. They picked the latter. TBH, I'm still mad at Gnome for getting
> rid of the bar you could dismiss with a click and it made the Strar Trek
> door noise. I think that went in Gnome 1.2 → Gnome 2.0
> 
> I've just switched to xubuntu. I think it uses XFCE. So far (10 minutes in)
> it mostly works. It does fail on one thing, though:
> 
> I can't seem to do that. And I can't cycle between workspaces, either. I
> hope it's not because I'm using an Apple keyboard. It's the least
> disappointing keyboard I've tried, but Linux barely understands it.

alt+tab works for me in xfce.  Pretty sure I never had to change any
settings for that to work.  Only change I make to default xfce is
deleting the second button bar at the bottom since it takes up space
and does nothing useful for me.

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Len Sorensen