Panels in Gnome 3.x? Topic is solved

[dedanna1029]

When Gnome 3 was released, I was able to modify the panels (among other things), thanks to viking's tips. I'm trying what is supposed to work in Gnome 3 on Mint, that being Alt+right-click to add things to the panels and to place them in another spot, etc.

I'm unable to do it with Alt+right click (it's not working). What do I do to add things to the panel, to move the panels, etc.?

Thanks.

[viking60]

Install Cinnamon; you will not be able to handle the Gnome3 panels like that.
Then you can log out and pick Cinnamon when you log in or you can do a ALT+F2 and write cinnamon --replace.
There you can place the panels with the cinnamon control panel. You can also drag fvourites from the menu to the panels and edit the menu by right-clicking.

[dedanna1029]

It's not coming up in the repos.

Ah, wait, it finally came up.

Much better. How do I get Cinnamon added to my login screen? Right now I don't have option to switch desktops. Thanks.

[viking60]

On the Login screen you will have the Cinnamon option beneath the Userid and password prompt.

[dedanna1029]

Sorry, not seeing it there (Linux Mint default install)?

[viking60]

Hmm As you know I am not a Mint user so I was only assuming. It is like that in Arch!
You are left with F2 + cinnamon --replace then...
Or just start it from ~/.xinitrc
by activating this line:

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exec ck-launch-session gnome-session-cinnamon

[dedanna1029]

Hey, that's right. Had forgotten about using ~/.xinitrc. Thanks.

[dedanna1029]

On the Login screen you will have the Cinnamon option beneath the Userid and password prompt.

Oh, btw, I found this today purely by accident. It's in a bit different (and tucked away) place. Next to each user name (and it's hard to notice), there is a very small wheel that one clicks. There, are the desktops you can log into on Mint. Thank you, btw. I'm sure I wouldn't have found that even by accident if you hadn't mentioned this.

I had forgotten about Mate (even though I myself posted about it). It's another one that will do what I want it to do. So, now, we have the choice of two desktops that will give us Gnome 2 style. Mate actually isn't bad, btw, and to be entirely honest, neither is Gnome 3 (with gnome-shell) on Mint. It's just that there's a couple of things I like to do with Gnome that it doesn't have.

[viking60]

No mate is not to bad. But there is an annoying delay on that menu. Cinnamon lets you drag icons from the menu to the panel and the right-click alacarte editing of the menu is back. The delay first time you use the menu is even worse there though. I use mate as a standard.
I guess you could mark this as SOLVED now?

[dedanna1029]

Yes, except I would like to know what happened to alt+right-click. Did they dump it from Gnome3, or ?

[viking60]

It is the same - but it only works in fallback mode.
So it is not dropped it just never worked in the Gnome3-shell.

[dedanna1029]

Ah, ok, thanks.