So, I’ve had my Gnome3 desktop up and running for a while (because Unity has not improved with time), and mostly things are okay! But there are small things bugging me.
My desktop, in tiny form, for reference above. (Yes, that offset is intentional. The monitor mounting points don’t match.)
ONE: Why aren’t these tips being clipped?
Peek-a-boo!
All the windows have them. Sometimes they’re black, mostly they're white. So some sort of clipping, isn’t. Is this because I’m using the open-source nvidia driver instead of the official one, or is something else going on?
TWO: I can’t run gnome-tweak-tool because it fails out if you don’t run pulseaudio. Is there a way around that? I suspect I might be able to solve item one if I could run item two.
THREE: I can make a link on the desktop to directories with ln -s, of course. But if I make one to Dropbox, the local-instance directory path ends up being /home/kahvi/Desktop/Dropbox instead of /home/kahvi/Dropbox, and even if I put things in the directory, and it is the right directory, Dropbox won’t sync it because the local reference at time of addition was wrong, and it never notices later so never syncs.
I can alt-F2 and type “Dropbox” and get the folder with the right local path, but that’s kind of lame. I can also pull up the Dropbox mini-app and go through a couple of menus to get there, but that’s also kind of lame. It’d be nicer if I could just click on the icon like I used to do. Or better yet, drag onto the icon, that’d be best.
None of these are really big deals, but it’d be nice to get them worked out, so if you have some tips, throw them into comments? Thanks!
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