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I would love to use Gnome Shell but that thing comes bundled with a window manager that you can't change. And for a power user a finely tuned window manager tha
by yason 15y ago
I would love to use Gnome Shell but that thing comes bundled with a window manager that you can't change. And for a power user a finely tuned window manager that makes managing windows easy—if not transparent—both from keyboard and mouse is a non-negotiable starting point. Ditto for Unity. Both are actually worse than even Metacity, when it comes to keyboard bindings. Now I'm with Gnome3 with the Gnome2 emulation mode but I don't know how long that lasts.
- thristian 15y agoThat surprises me, since GNOME 3's window-manager is basically Metacity, and (although it took some wrangling) I got all my custom GNOME 2 keyboard shortcuts set up on GNOME 3. Sure, even Metacity isn't going to be as configurable as... oh, Awesome or XMonad, but I've found it much more reliable than Compiz (I managed to completely break Unity once by playing with the Compiz configuration tool). What in particular do you mean by "making managing windows easy"?
- yason 15y agoI just tried to refer to the fact that I like to use a window manager separate from the desktop environment. You can't change the window manager in Gnome 3, except in the Gnome 2 emulation mode which I'm using[1]. And while Metacity could be used as an emergency replacement with a good configuration, the Metacity/Mutter in Gnome 3 had serious trouble emulating all the keypresses I needed. Especially Mod4 (or win key) was very problematic and unfortunately I've settled on that key for anything window related many, many years ago. [1] Now that I think of it, Unity also has Unity 2D which might support a regular window manager instead of a compositing one.