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I haven't really used Unity apart from launching a terminal and a browser on someone else's desktop. Unity and Gnome 3 seem very similar, both visually and by p
by moreentropy 13y ago
I haven't really used Unity apart from launching a terminal and a browser on someone else's desktop. Unity and Gnome 3 seem very similar, both visually and by paradigm. I guess Unity is a brainchild of Ubuntu's NIH attitude.
Personally as a Gnome 3 user, when having to use Unity i got annoyed because my muscle memory keystrokes didn't work as expected (hit win, type "term" hit return, hit win-uparrow, expect a fullscreen terminal), but there's no point in expecting Unity to behave exactly like Gnome 3, I'm sure a similar workflow exists in Unity.
- phaemon 13y ago> hit win, type "term" hit return, hit win-uparrow, expect a fullscreen terminal Unity version: hit win, type "term" hit return, hit F11, expect a fullscreen terminal
- SkyMarshal 13y agoAlso: hit win, type "term", hit return, hit alt-space x, expect a fullscreen terminal.
- Paul_S 13y agoDon't want to come across smug but in Awesome and many other tiling WM: meta+Enter That's it, your fullscreen terminal is there.
- mh- 13y agohmm, also in Windows 95.
- Paul_S 13y agoThat's blatantly not true. You have to press: ctrl+esc, up arrow, enter, c, m, d, enter, alt+m, enter (or something along those lines) And in the end I'm pretty sure the windows command prompt doesn't allow you to maximise it because it can't adapt to the changing line and row number. Also how do you get Windows 95 to manage your X session? ;) Seriously though, we're all talking about Linux here. edit: I understand your confusion now, I think you failed to realise that meta+enter also opens the said terminal
- mh- 13y agoI think you failed to realise that meta+enter also opens the said terminal ah yes, didn't know that. was referring to full-screening.
- phaemon 13y agoAh, nope, that's maximised, not fullscreen. Try both to see the difference.
- kzrdude 13y ago> Ubuntu's NIH attitude GNOME is implementing their vision for the desktop. Ubuntu is implementing their vision for the desktop. What's wrong with that?
- moreentropy 13y agoNothing really. Let them to what they want with their resources. I'd just say that with the current state of Unity and Gnome 3, it doesn't really make sense to have them both, since they're quite similar in look & feel. So I might suspect that right now Ubuntu's vision is to have something own they control. Which doesn't make sense to me but is their right.
- Shorel 13y agoCtrl-Alt T, F11 Launch terminal, go fullscreen, much faster. You are right about muscle memory. I hated Ubuntu until I forced myself to learn the shortcuts, now I love it.
- tedks 13y agoMaximize is control-win-uparrow -- I'm not sure if you meant that or fullscreen.