Good morning. Installed Debian 8.2 with Gnome DE, and then installed the Flashback package. So far I like it. I see the minimize/maximize controls have disappeared with Gnome 3. No big deal with maximize since you just need to double-click on the menu bar to toggle it. However, with minimize, which I use very often, I only found the Super-H hotkey. Anything else for minimize? Thanks in advance! François
If you don't already know, there are something called gnome3 extensions. These are necessary to make an otherwise unusable DE usable. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/426/window-buttons/
Didn't know, thanks. Found some things this morning that I'll try before trying a (beta) extension. Here's what I found (condensed):
By the way, I have another question: Debian also offers a few sessions, including Gnome Flashback (or Fallback, I'm not sure) for Wayland. I must admit my ignorance about Wayland. Thanks in advance for the explanations! Best regards, François
This is what worked for me: I had to navigate to org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences >> button-layout to get it to work w/ dconf-editor.
Honestly I gave up on GNOME after the release of GNOME3. I can't stand the buttons, windows, scheme of things, I literaly hate it all. Is minimize not working for Flashback? I remember it used to work for me, several decades ago. These days I only use KDE 5 and MATE. MATE gives me that glorious GNOME2 experience I really miss KDE 3, though. I'd pay 1000$ if someone made it fully compatible with Arch and Debian.
It's more "squarish", kinda like Windows 8 and 10. I like that KDE 4 is round, grey, and none of it's themes please me. It's also a bit buggy depending on the distro. openSUSE KDE 5 is the most buggy, while Arch (what I'm using) and Debian Testing/Sid are more stable. Here's a screenshot of my KDE 5: https://i.imgur.com/PqoBG93.png
Ok, great. Thanks. Looks interesting. I guess I should try it soon and have a look. I liked the old KDE 3, but didn't like 4 so much, so I stuck with Cinnamon and MATE for the past few years. Haven't touched openSUSE for a while either, it was a bit buggy for my tastes back then too. I'm pretty much sold on Debian now.. Anyway, thanks...
Yeah, KDE 5 on openSUSE will make your CPU usage to stay higher and thus causing performance loss on games and even Firefox. I haven't tested Tumbleweed but I think the problem is fixed there.
+1 for kde 5 and Mate. Kde 4/5 >> Gnome 3 Mate >= Xfce Actually Gnome 3 looks good to the eyes, but usability-wise not so good.
One of the things I did with Gnome was to install this extension and configure the dash to show as a side panel.
You don't need extensions for adding window buttons, it's an option in the tweak tool (the tool is pre-installed in Ubuntu Gnome, don't know about Debian).
Yes, that's possible with the gnome tweak tool and it should be in the Debian repo. Actually last time I used Gnome 3 was in 2012, so I don't remember much.
Gnome 3 can be quite irritating but with some patience you can tweak it to a bit of normality without loosing its underlying philosophy. oh... and it can look gorgeous as well