Is there any way of adding or removing applets from the Gnome2 panel? I've googled but can’t find any info. The usual advice (alt + right click doesn't work any more, it seems.)
Bev
On 08/05/17 11:07, Bev Nicolson wrote:
In the early days of Ubuntu's indicator panel, I used to have to resort to uninstalling various bits of software to get them off the indicator. If the worst comes to the worst, you could try that. I suspect that you can stop things loading by editing config files but I suspect it's not going to be easy.
Steve
On 08-May-2017 10:38:13 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Bev: If I right-click (not alt+right-click) on an item in my Gnome2 panel, I get a menu:
Launch Properties Remove From Panel Move Lock To Panel
so "Remove From Panel" should do the job. Does it not for you?
Best wishes, Ted.
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On 09/05/17 14:04, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Ubuntu 14.04LTS. And I know I should really upgrade but...(plus I like Gnome 2. I'd be upset to lose it.) The googling I've done suggests swopping to metacity then back again afterwards but I'm unsure how one does that.
Bev. (bronze age computing?)
On Tue, 9 May 2017 16:48:56 +0100 Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Ubuntu 14.04LTS. And I know I should really upgrade but...(plus I like Gnome 2. I'd be upset to lose it.)
Bev
Try one of the more recent distros with Mate as the desktop. The latest Ubuntu Mate is quite nice, or you could try Linux Mint.
Mick
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On 09/05/17 16:48, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Well, as long as it's still being supported you'll be OK-ish. Don't make the same mistake I did and let it go out-of-support before updating - that took a while to fix!
The googling I've done suggests swopping to metacity then back again afterwards but I'm unsure how one does that.
Er, to do what? Give you back the ability to remove stuff?
This may show you how to switch to metacity https://askubuntu.com/questions/154112/how-do-i-disable-compiz-and-enable-me...
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|metacity --display=:0 --replace ) |
but switching back depends on knowing what you're currently running - presumably compiz? To be honest I'm not sure what it would achieve, and you run the risk of having a non-functioning GUI!
Bev. (bronze age computing?)
Me too, but my bronze age computing is in the age of the hardware I run.
Not trying tell you what to do, but I have started using Lubuntu on my laptop, and migrated my server from Ubuntu to XUbuntu. The migrating was a bit hard due to my distro going out-of-support, but I managed it. With a bit of tweaking (removing the fancy task-manager-bar at the bottom of the screen, and replacing it with a dumber one) it's fine. Quite Gnome 2 like. And best of all, it's bang up-to-date. Actually, some of the gnome apps look a bit funny as they're designed to work on Gnome 3.
On my laptop, I have Lubuntu. I like it more than XUbuntu, but don't run it on my server because it doesn't have as much support nor LTS releases. Agian some gnome apps look wierd.
I've heard good things about Mint too.
Eventually, you're probably going to have to update, so it may be worth trying things out before you're forced to change.
Steve
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