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Is Gnome 3's system tray still off-limits to 3rd party applications? I like having Dropbox's sync indicator and Tomboy's note list running in the tray, and I'm

Is Gnome 3's system tray still off-limits to 3rd party applications? I like having Dropbox's sync indicator and Tomboy's note list running in the tray, and I'm not sure how that functionality would be replicated in Gnome 3.

bho 15y ago
Dropbox's sync indicator is still in the corner for me, just as it always has been, so it seems to work fine. How is everyone's alt-tab performance? I've been trying to like it, but alt-tab is so slow that it's barely usable. I don't have another GNOME3 computer to compare it to, so I don't know if it's something wrong with my configuration or hardware.
- tapoxi 15y ago
  I've been running Gnome 3 on Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 (via the PPA) on my Thinkpad W500 since April or so. This laptop has a discrete (FireGL 5700) and integrated graphics (GMA 4500) chip I can toggle between for power management reasons. No performance issues, alt-tab or otherwise, under either. It's been such a solid desktop that it's been my main development environment for these past few months.
- thingie 15y ago
  Good. No problem. On the other hand, typing anything in the activities overlay is very painful. I do it only by a mistake, because it's sooo slow, not only for the first time, but always. So is switching from Windows to Applications.
- nodata 15y ago
  alt+tab is the same speed as it always was. are you running on a really old pc by any chance? Things I dislike about Gnome 3.0: * Alt-tab is between apps, with alt+(thing above tab) for between windows in an app * Super+L doesn't work from the zoomed out view * Screen lock is partially broken: gnome-screensaver doesn't guarantee to lock the screen when switching users or suspending. It continues on whatever happens.
  - nuclear_eclipse 15y ago
    > with alt+(thing above tab) for between windows in an app Wow, I really wish I would have known about that a long time ago. Alt-tab only working between applications was so annoying that I found an extension that reverted to an old-school alt-tab behavior, except now it operates between all windows regardless of what workspace they are on... Alt-` is fantastic.
  - ARussell 15y ago
    I dislike the Alt+Tab behavior so much that I just filed a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654645 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654645
- thricedotted 15y ago
  On my rather average 3-yo laptop without dedicated graphics, Alt-Tab works great if the system load is low, but if I have a lot of things going on, it can take a second to pop up. Oddly, Super seems to work with less lag (though it stutters) than Alt-Tab for me while I'm running something resource-intensive.
thingie 15y ago
No, systray icons are displayed (and can be accessed and interactively used) in the bottom right corner, which is, however, shown only when you push your mouse cursor there, or when some notification shows up. The area left of the username (right top corner, no idea how it's called) is available only to the gnome-shell extensions that you have to install and turn on/off. I like it, though there are some problems, like quite often missing Empathy IM notifications (given that we use jabber quite a lot in the work...).

bho 15y ago

Dropbox's sync indicator is still in the corner for me, just as it always has been, so it seems to work fine. How is everyone's alt-tab performance? I've been trying to like it, but alt-tab is so slow that it's barely usable. I don't have another GNOME3 computer to compare it to, so I don't know if it's something wrong with my configuration or hardware.

tapoxi 15y ago
I've been running Gnome 3 on Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 (via the PPA) on my Thinkpad W500 since April or so. This laptop has a discrete (FireGL 5700) and integrated graphics (GMA 4500) chip I can toggle between for power management reasons. No performance issues, alt-tab or otherwise, under either. It's been such a solid desktop that it's been my main development environment for these past few months.
thingie 15y ago
Good. No problem. On the other hand, typing anything in the activities overlay is very painful. I do it only by a mistake, because it's sooo slow, not only for the first time, but always. So is switching from Windows to Applications.
nodata 15y ago
alt+tab is the same speed as it always was. are you running on a really old pc by any chance? Things I dislike about Gnome 3.0: * Alt-tab is between apps, with alt+(thing above tab) for between windows in an app * Super+L doesn't work from the zoomed out view * Screen lock is partially broken: gnome-screensaver doesn't guarantee to lock the screen when switching users or suspending. It continues on whatever happens.
- nuclear_eclipse 15y ago
  > with alt+(thing above tab) for between windows in an app Wow, I really wish I would have known about that a long time ago. Alt-tab only working between applications was so annoying that I found an extension that reverted to an old-school alt-tab behavior, except now it operates between all windows regardless of what workspace they are on... Alt-` is fantastic.
- ARussell 15y ago
  I dislike the Alt+Tab behavior so much that I just filed a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654645 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654645
thricedotted 15y ago
On my rather average 3-yo laptop without dedicated graphics, Alt-Tab works great if the system load is low, but if I have a lot of things going on, it can take a second to pop up. Oddly, Super seems to work with less lag (though it stutters) than Alt-Tab for me while I'm running something resource-intensive.

thingie 15y ago

No, systray icons are displayed (and can be accessed and interactively used) in the bottom right corner, which is, however, shown only when you push your mouse cursor there, or when some notification shows up. The area left of the username (right top corner, no idea how it's called) is available only to the gnome-shell extensions that you have to install and turn on/off. I like it, though there are some problems, like quite often missing Empathy IM notifications (given that we use jabber quite a lot in the work...).