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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:02:49 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m52ua9$lvr$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAN_TFxMHPu_1k5x29XA8Np8V1OP9B19a5gyW3O8N3iz6bAywgg@mail.gmail.com

On 2014-11-25, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No. It is not possible in Unity or, at least, it was not possible
>> in Unity at the time when Ubuntu 12.04 was released. They really
>> *forced* their users to accept the new place of the closing window
>> frame button and have argued that it is more ergonomic.
>>
>> There was not any possibility to change the place of the closing
>> window frame button in Unity via configuration options. Quite a
>> lot of Ubuntu users complained about it yet in Ubuntu 10.04,
>> where the new place of that button was a new default though
>> it was possible to change it back via configuration options.
>> In Unity, it was absolutely impossible.
>
> Try Lubuntu, with LXDE.

Or Xubuntu with XFCE.

I prefer Gentoo over Ubuntu for a host of other reasons, but switching
from Ubuntu to Gentoo just to get a different desktop seems like
overkill.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Psychoanalysis??
                                  at               I thought this was a nude
                              gmail.com            rap session!!!



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-25 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21  7:17 [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now Paige Thompson
2014-11-21  7:31 ` Marc Stürmer
2014-11-21 18:17   ` Paige Thompson
2014-11-21  7:32 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-11-21 11:57   ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-21 17:36     ` Philip Webb
2014-11-24 17:54       ` Marc Stürmer
2014-11-24 18:25         ` Gevisz
2014-11-24 19:13           ` Marc Stürmer
2014-11-25 17:44             ` Gevisz
2014-11-26  7:45               ` Marc Stürmer
2014-11-26  8:39                 ` Gevisz
2014-11-26 20:39                   ` Walter Dnes
2014-11-26 21:19                     ` Marc Stürmer
2014-11-26 10:06             ` thegeezer
2014-11-26 10:14               ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-24 21:05           ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-25  4:53             ` Gevisz
2014-11-25  8:41               ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-25 17:09                 ` Gevisz
2014-11-25 17:37                   ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-25 17:55                     ` Gevisz
2014-11-25 19:49                       ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-25 20:24                         ` Gevisz
2014-11-25 22:42                           ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-25 23:35                             ` Emanuele Rusconi
2014-11-26  0:56                               ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-26  6:43                                 ` Gevisz
2014-11-26  5:59                               ` Gevisz
2014-11-26  9:32                               ` thegeezer
2014-11-25 18:37                     ` Gevisz
2014-11-25 18:21               ` Maxim Wexler
2014-11-25 18:46                 ` Gevisz
2014-11-25 22:02                 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2014-11-26  7:34                   ` [gentoo-user] " Gevisz
2014-11-27 14:36                     ` Tom H
2014-11-27 15:16                       ` Rich Freeman
2014-12-03 17:01                     ` Grant Edwards
2014-11-27 14:24               ` [gentoo-user] " Tom H
2014-11-25  7:15             ` Gevisz
2014-11-25  9:45               ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-25 10:23                 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-11-25 17:03                 ` Gevisz
2014-11-25 19:56                   ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-25 20:13                     ` Gevisz
2014-11-24 18:51         ` Emanuele Rusconi
2014-11-27 11:00       ` Tom H
2014-11-27 14:43         ` Marc Stuermer
2014-11-27 15:22           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-11-27 19:06             ` Marc Stürmer
2014-11-27 21:46               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-11-27 22:56                 ` Paige Thompson
2014-11-27 23:01                   ` Paige Thompson
2014-11-28  1:13                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-11-28 19:03                       ` Paige Thompson
2014-11-28 19:14                         ` Mick
2014-11-28 19:14                         ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-11-28  1:16                 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-21 18:37   ` [gentoo-user] " Paige Thompson
2014-11-21 22:04   ` Marc Joliet
2014-11-24 12:18     ` Sid S
2014-11-24 12:20       ` Sid S
2014-11-23 17:44   ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-23 18:00     ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-23 18:35       ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-23 19:24         ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-23 20:25           ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-23 20:35             ` Neil Bothwick
2014-11-23 20:48               ` Alon Bar-Lev
2014-11-23 21:21             ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-23 21:45               ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-23 22:22                 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-25 16:35               ` Grant Edwards
2014-11-25 19:51                 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-25 22:12                   ` Grant Edwards
2014-11-27 11:03           ` Tom H
2014-11-23 21:20         ` Alan McKinnon
2014-11-23 18:07     ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-11-23 19:02       ` Marc Joliet
2014-11-23 19:11         ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-23 20:23       ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-23 20:26         ` Tanstaafl
2014-11-27 14:21           ` Tom H
2014-11-27 14:53             ` Marc Stuermer
2014-11-23 20:34         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-11-23 21:05           ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-23 22:45           ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
2014-11-27 14:21         ` Tom H

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