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I agree with you SO MUCH. I've been using Gnome lately on my XPS13 because HiDPI support in Xfce is not quite there yet (while in honesty is pretty well support

I agree with you SO MUCH. I've been using Gnome lately on my XPS13 because HiDPI support in Xfce is not quite there yet (while in honesty is pretty well supported in Gnome), and I hate it with a passion. It seems like they decided to reinvent every single well established UX paradigm there was, and somehow managed to make every one of them worse. Random example: they managed to break Alt+Tab; you now need to think whether the other window you want was created by the same executable that created the one in the foreground right now or not. Plus if you use Ctrl+Shift+T in chromium you will never be able to Alt+Tab to it again. Other random example: pushing the computer power button does not pop up a shutdown dialog because "shutting down is disruptive"!

vetinari 9y ago
You can change what alt-tab does, either the power-user way using dconf-editor, or a normal user way using an extension. In this case, install Alternate Tab extension, which will make the alt-tab work exactly as you want. You can also configure, what will happen when the power button is pressed (I think it puts the computer to sleep by default). In this case, you don't have to install anything, it is in the control center.
- lultimouomo 9y ago
  You can indeed change the Alt-Tab behaviour with an extension, but not what the power button does. It used to be possible, but they decided it was to disruptive and removed the option, which is the standard Gnome policy. I found an extension to show the shutdown dialog via Alt+PowerButton though.
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  - majewsky 9y ago
    Not a GNOME user, but maybe that's because the power button is now handled by logind? Have a look at `man logind.conf`.
  - vetinari 9y ago
    Not sure what kind of Gnome you are using, but in Gnome 3.26 as shipped with Fedora 27, in the Settings, Power options, you have three options what can happen, when you press the power button: "sleep" (the default), "shutdown" and "do nothing". When you select the second option, "shutdown", and then press the power button, it will throw a dialog at you, that the machine will shutdown in 60 seconds (and will display countdown), together with "cancel", "reboot" and "shutdown" buttons.

vetinari 9y ago

You can change what alt-tab does, either the power-user way using dconf-editor, or a normal user way using an extension. In this case, install Alternate Tab extension, which will make the alt-tab work exactly as you want. You can also configure, what will happen when the power button is pressed (I think it puts the computer to sleep by default). In this case, you don't have to install anything, it is in the control center.

lultimouomo 9y ago
You can indeed change the Alt-Tab behaviour with an extension, but not what the power button does. It used to be possible, but they decided it was to disruptive and removed the option, which is the standard Gnome policy. I found an extension to show the shutdown dialog via Alt+PowerButton though.
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- majewsky 9y ago
  Not a GNOME user, but maybe that's because the power button is now handled by logind? Have a look at `man logind.conf`.
- vetinari 9y ago
  Not sure what kind of Gnome you are using, but in Gnome 3.26 as shipped with Fedora 27, in the Settings, Power options, you have three options what can happen, when you press the power button: "sleep" (the default), "shutdown" and "do nothing". When you select the second option, "shutdown", and then press the power button, it will throw a dialog at you, that the machine will shutdown in 60 seconds (and will display countdown), together with "cancel", "reboot" and "shutdown" buttons.