Gnome language layouts, multiple desktops,

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, KDE user spending a week in Gnome.
> 3) Is there no Krunner equivalent in Gnome? In KDE, the user can press
> Alt-F2 then type in the name of the program that he needs to run. I
> have installed Gnome Do but I cannot seem to bind it to a keyboard
> shortcut.

alt-f2 is a gnome default too - should come with the panel for free...
 works everywhere I've tried it.  Perhaps related to your keyboard
issues?

Gnome-Do is Windows Key and Space Bar here by default (I haven't tried
to reassign it)

> 4) I cannot find where to configure a single desktop as opposed to the
> two that Gnome gives me as default. Clicking Preferences from the
> desktop pager applet does not give me an option to change the amount
> of desktops, nor does anywhere else in the menus that I can find.
> Googling leads me to believe that it _should_ be in the applet but it
> is not. What am I doing wrong?


Do you have a bunch of Compiz stuff running and overrulling the
regular defaults? Try going back to no effects for a second and see if
your desktop applet and alt-f2 start working.

Brian