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Version 5.1 by christoph_lechleitner@iteg_at on 2012-06-11 02.24:39
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1 === {{id name="Gnome3-Hints-SomeGnome3Hints"/}}Some Gnome 3 Hints ===
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3 ===== {{id name="Gnome3-Hints-GeneralTips"/}}General Tips =====
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5 Many Gnome3 changed settings apply immediatly. For those claiming to require a restart or logout+login, usually restarting the shell is satisfying: {{code language="none"}}Alt-F2{{/code}}, {{code language="none"}}r{{/code}}, {{code language="none"}}Enter{{/code}}. This also seems to make some software updates count faster.
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7 Some of the tips may apply to only Gnome 3.0 and 3.2, be aware of the switch from {{code language="none"}}gconf{{/code}} to {{code language="none"}}gsettings{{/code}} (or whatever).
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9 ===== {{id name="Gnome3-Hints-HowTo..."/}}HowTo ... =====
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11 [[How to switch modal dialogs from attached to decorated+movable>>url:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8691025/qt-qdialog-and-gnome-3-how-to-display-the-close-button-title-bar-and-make-it-mo||shape="rect"]] (gconf-editor, (% style="color: rgb(68,68,68);" %){{code language="none"}}/desktop/gnome/shell/windows{{/code}}, {{code language="none"}}attach_modal_dialogs{{/code}})
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13 [[How to include the 2nd monitor in workspace switching>>url:http://gregcor.com/2011/05/07/fix-dual-monitors-in-gnome-3-aka-my-workspaces-are-broken/||shape="rect"]] (gconf-editor, (% style="color: rgb(68,68,68);" %){{code language="none"}}/desktop/gnome/shell/windows{{/code}}, (% style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68)" %){{code language="none"}}workspaces_only_on_primary{{/code}})
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15 [[How to reduce the time after which Alt-Tab shows the window list>>url:http://askubuntu.com/questions/90213/is-there-any-way-to-make-the-alt-tab-window-changer-pop-up-quicker-in-gnome-shel||shape="rect"]] (watch out for the comment about {{code language="none"}}POPUP_DELAY_TIMEOUT{{/code}} in {{code language="none"}}/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/altTab.js{{/code}})
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17 To give workspaces names: gconf-editor, {{code language="none"}}/apps/metacity/worspace_names{{/code}}, {{code language="none"}}name_1{{/code}}, {{code language="none"}}name_2{{/code}}, ...