| |||||||||||||
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Posted Nov 10, 2011 21:26 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by zzxtty Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
I too was annoyed about losing the ability to launch a terminal from the Desktop, until I realised that It's silly to use the mouse to launch the terminal that you're about to type in! A quick trip to system settings allowed me to bind Ctrl+Alt+T to 'launch terminal'. I liked this so much that I changed it on my GNOME 2 desktop too (that I can't upgrade to GNOME 3 because it insists on needing 3d acceleration... I'm yet to be convinced that this is desirable or necessary).
It's also neat how you can launch a terminal by hitting the Windows key (or Alt+F1) and just typing 'term' and hitting enter. Same for launching or switching to any other application.
(Log in to post comments)
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 23:15 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
<blockquote>
I can't upgrade to GNOME 3 because it insists on needing 3d acceleration... I'm yet to be convinced that this is desirable or necessary</blockquote>
<p>This is a common misconception that this has something to do with 3d, probably because of all the wacky compiz effects, but this is really only about having GPU acceleration or not. In the next version they are no longer blacklisting Gallium/llvmpipe for accelerated graphics using the main CPU so you should be able to get the same graphics even without a working GPU, although offloading to a GPU is best.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 11, 2011 6:55 UTC (Fri) by Frej (subscriber, #4165) [Link]
The activity shortcut + default search gives you a better version of this for every installed application, or even a matched document.
So Meta+ter+enter should launch terminal. I doubt it orders by most used though, so if u install something else you might need one more key, but i can be fixed. It's pretty nice since it works without setting up keyboard shortcuts. Most would never do that.
I had the same binding on gnome2 ;)
|
|||||||||||||