Some rather basic Gnome questions

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Wed Oct 8 17:50:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:39:10AM -0700, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > I'm configuring a new Ubuntu 8.10 system from scratch and, as I'm not
> > a Gnome desktop user (ex fvwm and others) I'm having trouble finding a
> > few rather fundamental things for the Gnome desktop.
> > 
> > 1 - How/where do I set "Focus follows mouse", I can't find it anywhere
> > in Preferences but I'm sure it must be there somewhere.
> > 
> > 2 - How do I increase the number of desktops from teh default two?
> > 
> > 3 - How do I move a window if I don't have access to the title bar?
> 
> Dunno about 1 & 3, but for 2:
> 
> 1) right click on one of the workspace/desktop boxes.
> 2) click on "preferences".
> 3) change number of workspaces from 2 to whatever.
> 
> I have 4 desktop boxes myself.

Of course, yes, I should have thought of that, thank you.

-- 
Chris Green




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