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

[Giles Orr]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 19:59, Stewart C. Russell via talk
<talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-10-20 11:03, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> >
> > When a desktop going from version 2 to 3 throws away everything users
> > are used to, and the developers simply don't care, then it deserves any
> > hate it receives.
>
> 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:
>
> > Let me alt+tab between the windows.
>
> 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.

(Admittedly from memory:) try Ctrl-Alt-<left|right>-arrow-keys to
change desktops.  That is, of course, if you can find those keys on
the Apple keyboard: Control-Option-arrow?

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