On 09/29/2016 06:41 PM, Fred Smith wrote:> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 07:25:54PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Hey All, >> >> I'm considering moving from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. I'm not interested in >> dealing with Gnome 3. I've heard good things about Mate, a fork of >> Gnome 2. it appears that Mate is available in the EPEL repository >> associated with CentOS 7. >> >> Have any of you tried Mate on CentOS 7? In your experienced opinion >> what would I be giving up by abandoning Gnome 3 and installing Mate instead? > I'm using Mate on several C7 systems. The only issue is that now I > dont have to try to use that horrid Gnome thing they've inflicted on us! :) >I also run MATE on CentOS 7, for the same reasons. Only additional thing I did was to install the "nux" repo, along with the infinality font rpms, which drastically improved font rendering. For some reason, the default C7 desktop never looked as good as the default C6 desktop until I installed: fontconfig-infinality-1-20120615_1.noarch freetype-infinality-2.4.12-2.20130514_01.el7.nux.1.x86_64 -Greg
On 09/29/2016 07:25 PM, Greg Bailey wrote:> On 09/29/2016 06:41 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 07:25:54PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> Hey All, >>> >>> I'm considering moving from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. I'm not interested in >>> dealing with Gnome 3. I've heard good things about Mate, a fork of >>> Gnome 2. it appears that Mate is available in the EPEL repository >>> associated with CentOS 7. >>> >>> Have any of you tried Mate on CentOS 7? In your experienced opinion >>> what would I be giving up by abandoning Gnome 3 and installing Mate >>> instead? >> I'm using Mate on several C7 systems. The only issue is that now I >> dont have to try to use that horrid Gnome thing they've inflicted on >> us! :) >> > > I also run MATE on CentOS 7, for the same reasons.Same here however with the my latest system build I set one account up to use GNOME 3 and it definitely has considerably improved since when CentOS 7 first shipped. MATE is still better IMHO but I now have some hope for GNOME 3. Still feels like it is trying to be a tablet OS but not quite as much. I still couldn't figure out how to do things like get green text on black background in the Terminal (easy in Mate) or get the Applications menu with submenus - but it was easier to use than what initially shipped. -- -=- Sent my from my laptop, may not be able to respond timely
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Greg Bailey > Sent: den 30 september 2016 04:26 > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI > > Only additional thing I did was to install the "nux" repo, along with > the infinality font rpms, which drastically improved font rendering. > For some reason, the default C7 desktop never looked as good as the > default C6 desktop until I installed: > > fontconfig-infinality-1-20120615_1.noarch > freetype-infinality-2.4.12-2.20130514_01.el7.nux.1.x86_64Thanks for the hint! Is there however something fishy with the freetype-infinality-2.4.12-2.20130514_01.el7.nux.1.x86_64? It seems it cannot be found in the nux-dextop repo. -- //Sorin
On 09/29/2016 11:21 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:>> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Greg Bailey >> Sent: den 30 september 2016 04:26 >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI >> >> Only additional thing I did was to install the "nux" repo, along with >> the infinality font rpms, which drastically improved font rendering. >> For some reason, the default C7 desktop never looked as good as the >> default C6 desktop until I installed: >> >> fontconfig-infinality-1-20120615_1.noarch >> freetype-infinality-2.4.12-2.20130514_01.el7.nux.1.x86_64 > Thanks for the hint! > > Is there however something fishy with the > freetype-infinality-2.4.12-2.20130514_01.el7.nux.1.x86_64? > It seems it cannot be found in the nux-dextop repo. >I hadn't noticed that it disappeared. https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55936 looks relevant, but I haven't experimented with "freetype-freeworld", whatever that is... the freetype-infinality RPM is apparently still available via the link posted in that forum. -Greg