3 year linux user

[davego33]

I have been using linux for about 3 years now full time on my personal desktop. I use windows XP sp3 on my work laptop, and also have a personal laptop running windows 7 professional.

Even though I started playing around with linux a long time ago (1992-93 time frame), I never really used it full-time on my personal desktop. I used slackware for a while (downloaded and installed from 3.5" floppies). That 2-3 month experience installing slackware (don't remember which version I was using in 1994) was one of the most enjoyable of my life. I have also used redhat variants along with suse versions along the way.

About 3 years ago, being very tired of using (and paying for) windows, I tried out elive version of linux, and it wasn't too bad, except it was very unstable, frequently crashing. So I moved on. The next variant was parsix linux, which I really liked. I used this for several months and got used to the gnome 2 interface.

Then I tried linux mint 9 and really liked that, and upgraded to linux mint 10 a few weeks later, and then linux mint 11 when it was released. I spent a lot of time figuring out how to customize things and was able to get everything set the way I liked and how it seemed easiest for me to use.

Now I am using the just-released linux mint 12 version; so far my experience has been one of confusion. Things are so different that it is frustrating as well.

In any case, hope I can find some posts that explain the mysterious nature of the different work spaces that seem to be created catch-as-catch-can!! And disappear just as fast.

[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the mint family forums

wizard

[Anakinholland]

Hya dave!

Welcome on the forums, hope you can add some flavour to it!

Regarding the workspaces, from what I can tell Gnome3 always adds 1 more than the amount you currently use. So if you move an application from WS1 to WS2, Gnome will automagically create a 3rd, etc, etc.

If you want to rever this, then this article might be of some use.

Regarding the auto-workspaces – if you want to set a specific number to remain permanently, you’ve got to first use the builtin Auto functionality to create them, and once you have the desired number, use the Tweak tool to disable it. Workpaces will no longer be added or removed by Gnome.

Mind you, I'm on Mint11 here, so cannot verify

Regards,

Anakin

[Oscar799]

Hello davego33,
Welcome to Mint forum
A lot of us are using Gnome3 for the first time,there is a Gnome3 section viewforum.php?f=205 where questions are asked and fixes posted when they are found

[overthetop]

Welcome aboard! Good luck with Mint 12 and Gnome 3!

[nunol]

Welcome to the Linux Mint Forums davego33!

Cheers.

[tdockery97]

Hi davego33, and welcome to Linux Mint.