Gnome, in all it’s glory
Well, I took the plunge today. I switched to the full Gnome environment. Rather than using my own window manager (fvwm) with it’s own button bar and panel, I’ve switched to using the gnome environment, complete with panel and desktop. Now, I do still run fvwm as my window manager, so I still get all my great keyboard shortcuts, and my positioning, and my lack-of-decorations, but I also get all the panel plugins that I couldn’t run before. It’s nice, and I like it. For example, I can use the applet version of Gnome Blogger (which I’m using to post this) rather than the standalone version. And, I can get into gdesklets, which should be cool. On the whole, I’m quite happy with it, dispite the loss of vertical space.
I do have two small gripes. First, the fvwm paging doesn’t interact well with the gnome paging. Fvwm puts it’s entire virutal desktop system into each gnome desktop. I’d like to be able to use my fvwm shortcuts to move around the gnome desktop. However, it’s a small thing.
The second is that I can’t use the gnome terminal app. The problem is that it only uses truetype fonts, and they only go down to a size of 8. I really need smaller than that, so that I can get at least 160 characters of width out of my screen realestate. This is not good. So, I’m still using my venerable xterm setup with it’s bitmapped fonts. Oh well.
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