Hi Ted
I live in Littleport itself and can do you a disk.
what flavour do you want, Mate 64 bit I assume ?
Ben
Ted Harding mailto:ted.harding@wlandres.net 26 June 2017 21:42via Postbox https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sumlink&utm_campaign=reach
Many thanks to Bev, "Huge", and Phil Thane (private reply), for suggesting Linux Mint MATE and for confirming that this is indeed based on Gnome 2. So I think I'll go for that.
I guess I'll start off with a live CD/DVD so that I can see what it's like in detail, before settling down to the full install from an install DVD.
The Linux Mint website offers downloads of a variety of ISOs for building CDs/DVDs. However, I'm currently short of resources (lack of remaining disk-space on my one working laptop), so I'm wondering where to look to buy one. Suggestions?
Or could someone oblige (for suitable reward) by making one for me?
As stated previously, I'm near Littleport, on the King's Lynn to Downham Market to Ely to Cambridge axis, so that area would be more convenient than trecking out to Thetford/Diss/Norwich or the like.
With thanks again, and best wishes, Ted.
main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! Huge mailto:huge@huge.org.uk 26 June 2017 19:37via Postbox https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sumlink&utm_campaign=reach On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 19:29 +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Thanks for an impressively prompt reply, Bev! But can you tell me where in https://www.linuxmint.com/ it says that it has (or can install) Gnome 2?
I'm running Mint17 with MATE (Mah-tay) desktop and although I have no idea which version of Gnome it runs, nor indeed how to find out, it has the workspace switcher you describe.
This says MATE is Gnome2 (and Cinnamon, the other standard desktop) is Gnome3.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/mint-17-the-best-linux-desktop-to-date/
I'm happy to look at anything on my system you might want to know.
Rgds,
H.
Best wishes, Ted.
On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 19:18 +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Ah. Well the answer I got a while back was this, Ted:
I'll have to dive in one day.
Bev
On 26/06/17 18:56, Ted Harding wrote:
So can anyone point me to installation resources for a Linux distribution which has Gbome 2?
Scientific Linux: https://www.scientificlinux.org/ used to have Gnome 2 for some time after Gnome 3 came out, but it seems that it now only has Gnome 3 (though I haven't found definite confirmation of this on the SciLin website).
Any relevant info anf help will be much appreciated! Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted.
Ted Harding mailto:ted.harding@wlandres.net 26 June 2017 19:29via Postbox https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sumlink&utm_campaign=reach Thanks for an impressively prompt reply, Bev! But can you tell me where in https://www.linuxmint.com/ it says that it has (or can install) Gnome 2? Best wishes, Ted.
main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! Bev Nicolson mailto:lumos@gmx.co.uk 26 June 2017 19:18via Postbox https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sumlink&utm_campaign=reach Ah. Well the answer I got a while back was this, Ted:
I'll have to dive in one day.
Bev
main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! Ted Harding mailto:ted.harding@wlandres.net 26 June 2017 18:56via Postbox https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sumlink&utm_campaign=reach Greetings all! As I posted a few days ago, I shall want to install Linux on a new laptop. For years I have been using Gnome 2, since in particular it provides for a row of "workspace" icons at the bottom of the screen. I use 20 of these, since much of the work I do involves switching between different workspaces in which different jobs are going on in parallel (and each could itself use up two or more workspaces).
A screengrab of what the screen looks like before I start anything up is at: http://www.zen89632.zen.co.uk/Misc/gnome2-debian-desktop.jpg The 20 workspace icons are at bottom right, and switching between them is easy -- mouse-click, or "Ctrl-Alt-RightArrow" or "Ctrl-Alt-LeftArrow".
This does not seem to be available on Gnome 3.
So can anyone point me to installation resources for a Linux distribution which has Gbome 2?
Scientific Linux: https://www.scientificlinux.org/ used to have Gnome 2 for some time after Gnome 3 came out, but it seems that it now only has Gnome 3 (though I haven't found definite confirmation of this on the SciLin website).
Any relevant info anf help will be much appreciated! Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted.
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