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

[Mauro Souza]

I've been a XFCE user since 2005, probably earlier, and every time I try a
new Gnome or KDE desktop, I get back to XFCE. It works, it's light, the
panel works just fine, Alt-Tab works as expected, Alt-` switches between
windows of the same program (like the dozen terminals I keep opening all
the time), you can have several virtual desktops and Ctrl-Alt-arrow to
change between them. It supports icons on the desktop, icons on the menu,
and takes very little memory.

The other desktop environment that I used extensively is Cinnamon. It's
fast, it's pretty, everything works, and maybe someday I will take the time
to build it under RedHat Enterprise, the distro I am forced to use because
it's the company issued Thinkpad that I explicitly requested (otherwise I
would have been issued a MacBook or the Air variant).  But as XFCE is as
good as Cinnamon, I have little incentive to install dozens and dozens of
libraries and wrestle with make to, well, make it.

Mauro
https://www.maurosouza.com - registered Linux User: 294521
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Em qui., 21 de out. de 2021 às 14:30, Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
escreveu:

> 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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