I use(d) fedora to run my IDEs ( c++), now it is all floating-contracting windows , with gazilion 'drag-your-window' nonsense . I guess I am not cool enough to use this clusterfu..k, it is simply unusable for me , so I am looking for something that looks like early Fedora to simplify my development . Is there Fedora offshoot with a sane UI ?
Am 09.01.2022 um 23:43 schrieb None Business forannoyingvendors@gmail.com:
I use(d) fedora to run my IDEs ( c++), now it is all floating-contracting windows , with gazilion 'drag-your-window' nonsense . I guess I am not cool enough to use this clusterfu..k, it is simply unusable for me , so I am looking for something that looks like early Fedora to simplify my development . Is there Fedora offshoot with a sane UI ? _______________________________________________
Apart from the fact that your style is not particularly respectful and cooperative, others can't get along with the Gnome interface either. They have developed alternatives, which now also work very stable and reliable. Check out https://spins.fedoraproject.org/. There you will find more "traditional" desktops, e.g. Mate or Cinnamon.
You can install the desktops parallel to your current Gnome and try them out. So you don't need to reinstall.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 6:02 PM Peter Boy pboy@uni-bremen.de wrote:
Am 09.01.2022 um 23:43 schrieb None Business forannoyingvendors@gmail.com:
I use(d) fedora to run my IDEs ( c++), now it is all floating-contracting windows , with gazilion 'drag-your-window' nonsense . I guess I am not cool enough to use this clusterfu..k, it is simply unusable for me , so I am looking for something that looks like early Fedora to simplify my development . Is there Fedora offshoot with a sane UI ? _______________________________________________
Apart from the fact that your style is not particularly respectful and cooperative, others can't get along with the Gnome interface either. They have developed alternatives, which now also work very stable and reliable. Check out https://spins.fedoraproject.org/. There you will find more "traditional" desktops, e.g. Mate or Cinnamon.
You can install the desktops parallel to your current Gnome and try them out. So you don't need to reinstall.
Crudities aside, it has gotten out of hand. Is it worth trying to bring back "tvtwm", as an even lighter andmore stable window manager with very good hooks for managing multiple virtual windows?
Am 10.01.2022 um 00:25 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com:
... it has gotten out of hand.
Indeed. When Gnome 3 hit Fedora years ago, I tried hard, but then decided heavy heartedly to switch all my desktops and laptops to macOS. It has remained that way until today. But I’m happy with Fedora Server for all our servers. There is no window at all :-)
Is it worth trying to bring back "tvtwm", as an even lighter andmore stable window manager with very good hooks for managing multiple virtual windows?
Taking the physical screen as a viewport onto a much larger, continuous virtual screen is a very interesting idea. But if I understand the Wikipedia article correctly, the number of users is currently very small. A port is probably not very likely. But really a nice idea. Didn’t know that one.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 6:58 PM Peter Boy pboy@uni-bremen.de wrote:
Am 10.01.2022 um 00:25 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com:
... it has gotten out of hand.
Indeed. When Gnome 3 hit Fedora years ago, I tried hard, but then decided heavy heartedly to switch all my desktops and laptops to macOS. It has remained that way until today. But I’m happy with Fedora Server for all our servers. There is no window at all :-)
Is it worth trying to bring back "tvtwm", as an even lighter andmore stable window manager with very good hooks for managing multiple virtual windows?
Taking the physical screen as a viewport onto a much larger, continuous virtual screen is a very interesting idea. But if I understand the Wikipedia article correctly, the number of users is currently very small. A port is probably not very likely. But really a nice idea. Didn’t know that one.
I used it last year. It's *really, really* stable.