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Many thanks, Laurie. That clarifies a number of things! And, yes,
live disks of LMC and LMM is an excellent suggestion. And I like
(and really sympathise with) the reasons the Mint team went the
way they did. In fact, "the way Gnome was going" turned out to
be the main reason I have'nt upgraded my Debian for years!
Best wishes,
Ted.
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Ted,
I use Mint Cinnamon 17.3 and 18.1 every day, and can confirm that
although they are based on Gnome 3, the functionality you require is
built-in. LMC uses a tool called expo to manage workspaces (right-click
on a workspace to launch it).
You may not be aware but the Mint team got fed up of the way Gnome was
going and forked it, keeping and enhancing the parts they like and the
community wanted, and adding new functionality.
I can't recommend LMC enough, and can confirm that - personally - I
didn't much like MATE.
Anyway, you don't need MATE to have the functionality you require, nor
do you need Gnome 2 if you go with LMC.
Maybe Ben could do you a live disk of both LMC and LMM for you to try.
Cheers, Laurie.26 June 2017 19:28 via PostboxOn Mon, 2017-06-26 at 19:18 +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:Ah. Well the answer I got a while back was this, Ted: https://www.linuxmint.com/It's what I use and I'm very pleased with it.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. _______________________________________________ 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!_______________________________________________ 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!26 June 2017 19:18 via PostboxAh. Well the answer I got a while back was this, Ted:
https://www.linuxmint.com/
I'll have to dive in one day.
Bev
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Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!26 June 2017 18:56 via PostboxGreetings 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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