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The problem is, Gnome 3 is way more of a "tablet" operating system than Unity turned out to be. I'd take a halfway point between Gnome 3 and MATE.
by jdlyga 9y ago
The problem is, Gnome 3 is way more of a "tablet" operating system than Unity turned out to be. I'd take a halfway point between Gnome 3 and MATE.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoI've used Cinnamon, MATE, Gnome 2, and KDE before making the switch to i3. I highly recommend switching to a tiling WM.
- 0xFFC 9y agoI am looking for tilling window manager for Wayland. Sadly I couldn't find any stable one yet. But SwayWM seems promising.
- pimeys 9y agoRunning Xorg is still possible and it's not bad at all. With a recent Intel chipset it might be even faster right now. I'm all in for Wayland, but others than Gnome are not there yet.
- majewsky 9y agoI'm using Sway on my notebook, but I still have Plasma as a fallback. General window management works reasonably well, but some particular Wayland protocol extensions are missing (for example, relative pointer motion, without which games like Minecraft don't work).
- btschaegg 9y agoThis. It's easy to just hit C-M-F2 and start an Xorg server if necessary. And, until now, I've had to do that way more often because of bad GUI applications that ignore the possibility of there being a tiling WM instead of problems with wayland...
- JoshMnem 9y agoTiling WMs like i3 or xmonad are great. Xmonad can run under GNOME, making it easier to set up. https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome
- virtualwhys 9y agoHave been running i3 sans Gnome for about 6 years now in a minimal Fedora install. Throw in the tiny `xcalib` package (all 100KB of it) for easy screen inversion (i.e. hotkey toggle light/dark "theme") and you get an easy-on-the-eyes UI with sane window management.
- r3bl 9y agoUnfortunately, it just looks like a tablet OS, it doesn't behave as such. I've tried to make it work dozens times, and while I can navigate across the opened windows and start a new one (just don't try it with Dash to Dock), I simply get stuck somewhere. The virtual keyboard doesn't show up, or the virtual keyboard does show up but it doesn't detect key presses. And it's not intuitive. Let's say that I want to open the application launcher and start an app that isn't in my favorites. I can't scroll over the icons because that selects and moves the icons. I have to scroll on the side, where no icons are present. And even then, I can't make a small touch gesture. I have to scroll through all the vertical space on my touchscreen to get to the next grid of apps. I can't use my 2 in 1 in a tablet mode for anything more complicated than the simplest tasks (like reading PDFs in Evince, which works wonderfully).
- keithpeter 9y agoStrange to relate, I find Gnome 3 to be fairly keyboard friendly. Coming from dwm/dmenu and using small laptops so tending to use all applications full-screen. Perhaps we need different UI logics that can be selected from a configuration application?
- stevepike 9y agoWhile it looks like a tablet interface, I use gnome 3 on the desktop with two 4k monitors and it works great. (I mention 4k, because while I'd love to use a tiling manager I haven't found good support for UI scaling outside gnome and KDE). Not sure what it's called, but the app launcher + window switcher that comes up when you hit super is really fast / useful even with lots of windows and apps (https://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ https://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/).
- majewsky 9y agoI distantly remember that there is (or used to be?) a tiling-window-management extension for KWin. Google might help finding it.