On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:59:49PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
Yup. The main reason for Gnome removing desktop icons was that the code was buggy. They didn't ask the users whether they wanted the bugs fixed or the icons gone. They picked the latter. TBH, I'm still mad at Gnome for getting rid of the bar you could dismiss with a click and it made the Strar Trek door noise. I think that went in Gnome 1.2 → Gnome 2.0
I've just switched to xubuntu. I think it uses XFCE. So far (10 minutes in) it mostly works. It does fail on one thing, though:
I can't seem to do that. And I can't cycle between workspaces, either. I hope it's not because I'm using an Apple keyboard. It's the least disappointing keyboard I've tried, but Linux barely understands it.
alt+tab works for me in xfce. Pretty sure I never had to change any settings for that to work. Only change I make to default xfce is deleting the second button bar at the bottom since it takes up space and does nothing useful for me. -- Len Sorensen