Comments on: Install the Gnome Flashback classical desktop on Ubuntu 14.10/Linux Mint 17

By: prot

prot — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 09:53:16 +0000

commands ready to use:
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager false
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity edge-tiling false
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false

and optionally:
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity reduced-resources true

By: Sajjad H. Rizvi

Sajjad H. Rizvi — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:37:00 +0000

In reply to Jay LaCroix. I think that's exactly why it is there. Gnome team saw the attention and demand for it and thought this should be an option.

By: IJK

IJK — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:54:00 +0000

In reply to Eric Lovejoy. Quite. The Gnome devs seem to be a bunch of opinionated ***holes.

By: Jay LaCroix

Jay LaCroix — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:26:00 +0000

I don’t understand why this is necessary. We have MATE for this exact purpose.

By: Eric Lovejoy

Eric Lovejoy — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 14:12:00 +0000

Gnome
does a much worse job at doing what it used to do in Gnome2, then what
mate does now. Flash back mode looks hardly like the gnome2 that it
claims to flashback to. Its so incredibly infuriating that the gnome
devs dropped a perfectly stable and well supported DE. Mate Does Gnome
best. No mate isn’t Gnome2 but, its closer than flashback mode is.

By: Rey Rivera

Rey Rivera — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:15:00 +0000

Hmmm… I see that you are a big fan of Elementary OS, just like me. Nice to know that. I enjoy reading your articles, though no one is commenting, most of the time.

Cheers mate… as the Aussies luv to say!