Trisquel 7.0 Questions
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Hello all,
I have made the switch finally from 6.0 to 7.0 and as always when one makes a major upgrades some things have "broken". I was hoping you all could give me some insight on whether or not I can "fix" these things.
First, I would like to know if there is a way to turn off the fade transitions when one opens windows or menus and get rid of the shadows behind said windows. I much rather just have a good functioning desktop rather than all the flashy things.
Second, when I go to select a background the "Pictures" button only shows pictures in the root of my 'Pictures' folder and there is no way to select a custom area for this. There used to be a way in 6.0, but that has gone. Also, if I want to select a color, I only have the choices given, there is no custom color chooser which is sad.
Third, Nautilus. Nautilus seems to be called 'Files' now? The issue that I have with it, is I would like to get rid of the 'web-browser' type navigation and replace it with a traditional 'menu-driven' navigation like I was able to change it to before. Has this feature been removed?
And last, System settings. Is there a way to resize the System Settings window? I can only see the top half of the icons and cannot re-position it to show the rest. Before it seemed to stay within the confounds of my resolution, and I could scroll, this does not happen any longer.
Thanks ahead for the help,
grimlok
> Second, when I go to select a background the "Pictures" button only shows pictures in the root of my 'Pictures' folder and there is no way to select a custom area for this. There used to be a way in 6.0, but that has gone.
If you right-click on an image, one of the menu options is "Set as Wallpaper".
> Third, Nautilus. Nautilus seems to be called 'Files' now? The issue that I have with it, is I would like to get rid of the 'web-browser' type navigation and replace it with a traditional 'menu-driven' navigation like I was able to change it to before. Has this feature been removed?
I think it has been. If you don't like it, you may want to try a different file manager. Most notably, there's Nemo, which is a fork of Nautilus used by Cinnamon; Thunar, the file manager of Xfce; and PCManFM, the file manager of LXDE. There's also MATE's fork of Nautilus (from GNOME 2), Caja, but that's not in Trisquel's repo at the moment.
> And last, System settings. Is there a way to resize the System Settings window? I can only see the top half of the icons and cannot re-position it to show the rest. Before it seemed to stay within the confounds of my resolution, and I could scroll, this does not happen any longer.
One workaround you can use: hold Alt and click on part of the window, and you can drag it around that way.
I wonder if this has been fixed in a newer GNOME release...
Thanks for the response Opon..
>If you right-click on an image, one of the menu options is "Set as Wallpaper".
This doesn't help for tiled wallpaper, there is no tile function which is frustrating.
>I think it has been. If you don't like it, you may want to try a different file manager. Most notably, there's Nemo, which is a fork of Nautilus used by Cinnamon; Thunar, the file manager of Xfce; and PCManFM, the file manager of LXDE. There's also MATE's fork of Nautilus (from GNOME 2), Caja, but that's not in Trisquel's repo at the moment.
Very sad that one has to find something else to make something work the way they want it, when it worked that way before.
>One workaround you can use: hold Alt and click on part of the window, and you can drag it around that way.
Thanks, that does help.
Is there a way to just blow away GNOME and put Mate on here all together? Has anyone messed with FVWM? It looks very promising, albeit VERY dificult... I played with it a little, and seems to be a bit confusing yet powerful.
> Very sad that one has to find something else to make something work the way they want it, when it worked that way before.
If I'm thinking of what you're thinking of, it was removed from Nautilus because it was deemed unnecessary. It makes sense given GNOME's design principles.
> Is there a way to just blow away GNOME and put Mate on here all together?
Trisquel doesn't use any part of MATE. It's just GNOME, but with GNOME Flashback instead of GNOME Shell.
As far as I can tell, to install MATE, you'd need to use a PPA or some other external source.
If you want a tiled wallpaper from any directory you'd like you can use GNOME Tweak Tool.
If you don't like Nautilus you can replace it with Cinnamon's Nemo: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/nemo (avoid the Dropbox package, though. Need I tell you why?).
To remove transitions (this will remove the shadows too, though), do sudo apt-get purge compton
You don't need a PPA, Nemo is in Trisquel 7's normal repo (nemo package).
Ah, my bad, then.
Removing Compton does work! Thanks David!
You could try the nitrogen package for picking wallpapers. It allows easily selecting custom directory, background color and tiling.
That would mean no desktop icons though, if I remember correctly.
Could be, can't say because I don't use any.
To get rid of the animations, I would try setting /org/gnome/metacity/reduced-resources to true by using the Dconf editor.
So I got tired of dealing with the new GNOME and ended up going with XFCE to get the results I want. Had to play around with some things but it's getting there. Screenshot attached.
Thanks everyone!
grimlok
I am a translator!
grimlok: XFCE is grrrrrr8! I think it would look better if you installed the package qt4-qtconfig and then set the gui style to GTK.
cheers
What would that do?
QT apps (i.e. VLC) will look better or otherwise match the GTK+ theme you're using. I'll give you a before-and-after example.
Since you probably installed from a non-netinstall ISO though it's probably installed by default, but check just to make sure)
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