Unity & gnome-panels

[freddyEK at gmail.com]

It is indeed the workspace switcher I was talking about. Sorry, my mistake!
Freddy


Le , Han Pilmeyer <pilux at pilmeyer.nl> a écrit :
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 17:26 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:

> > From what I read here the "classic" form of Gnome will not be an

> > option

> > in the not to distant future. Because of this I have been trying to

> > get

> > used to Unity but not having much luck.



> I believe that is somewhat of a misconception. For as far as I

> understood it, but I admit I haven't read all articles about it, it's

> just that the classic Gnome desktop will not be installed by default in

> Oneiric. That doesn't mean you can not install it afterwards. Since it

> will likely be based on Gnome 3 (and Unity will use that too), it should

> be in the repositories. I'm not sure what will happen for upgrades, but

> perhaps your current "classic" environment wouldn't be de-installed.



> I'm also trying Unity (for the same reasons), but not on my production

> environment yet. I've also seen Gnome 3 on Fedora 15 and it looks very

> different to the "classic" Gnome 2 environment as well. Change is the

> only certainty in life! ;-)



> >

> > You can change the number of windows in Unity's window switcher but

> > it

> > is not visible. It is at the bottom end of the launcher and I have

> > to

> > scroll down to see it, not very convenient. I tried moving it up

> > towards the top where it at least it would be more accessible but it

> > will not stay up there.



> Do you mean the workspace switcher or window switcher? You can still

> customize Compiz settings. You can get the workspaces to switch using

> keystrokes (Ctrl+Alt+arrows) and also get window previous and switching

> between windows with keystrokes (Super+Tab). Not completely the same as

> in the "classic" environment, but something I can live with.



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