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One of the more popular window managers.

I tried it a long time ago. Tested very briefly. Strongly dislike because of speed issues. Didn’t test for long enough to learn about the style of applications etc. I’ve developed a bias against Gnome in preference for KDE for reasons I can’t articulate. Gnome is kinda pretty, but KDE keeps my attention.

• Gnome 2 was forked and continued by a new team as MATE.

See also:

• /tag/gnome-software

  • gdm – it’s login manager
  • Metacity – its window manager

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• 2009-07-16 – (version not recorded) on Foresight Linux lite-2.1.0

• 2009-03-17 – (version not applicable) on (distribution not applicable)

2009-07-16 – (version not recorded) ∞

I don’t know what GNOME version it was.

• The resize is insane, I have to alt-middleclick-drag, instead of the proper alt-rightclick-drag. This is a VERY old issue.

• Gnome volume control isn’t very good. When clicked, I get the normal popup slider. However, if I click somewhere else on the screen the popup slider doesn’t collapse.

2009-03-17 – (version not applicable) ∞

Some old notes I copied from ‘patter’ on forums.droplinegnome.org/viewtopic.php?=&p=35817

1. Open terminal console

2. Start gnome-keyring-daemon and set few environment parameters:

gnome-keyring-daemon

GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-ZmbY2K/socket
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=28043

export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-ZmbY2K/socket
export GNOME_KEYRING_PID=28043

3. Start dbus-daemon:

eval `dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax`

4. Start gnome-settings-daemon in background

/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &

5. Start the Evolution