<html><body>Hi Desmond,<br /><br />On 2 September 2012 17:28, Desmond Armstrong <desmond.armstrong@gmail.com> wrote:<br />> I am actually quite impressed with Gnome 3. It is quite easy to find your<br />> way around.<br />><br />> From Mageia 2 perspective which is Gnome 3 version 3.4 I am very happy with<br />> it and I would encourage you to give it a whirl.<br /><br />The desktop on Mageia 2, released May 2012, which I installed from your disk, feels to me quite different from the one I looked at Thursday night, which was Ubuntu 11.10 LXF Remix with Gnome 3.<br /><br />Although I really love Debian Squeeze (and before that, Lenny, and before that, Sarge) I do like the Mageia 2 desktop for the fact that I can have the more recent version of Inkscape and Blender and so on.<br /><br />The one drawback at the moment is that it isn't filling up the whole of my laptop's wide screen, plus the resolution setting is currently too low. The Graphics Server screen in the Control Center's Hardware section doesn't offer much help with this. The best res is 832x624. This contrasts with the automatic recognition in the Ubuntu 11.10 LXF Remix referred to above. That OS gives me 1280 x 800 (16:10). Unfortunately it doesn't show the refresh rates it is using. Running lshw -C doesn't show them either. Running xrandr gives me 60.0*+ for 1280 x 800, whatever *+ denotes. But I haven't found xorg.conf and am unsure how to progress. Hopefully I can get help with this on Saturday.<br /><br />The laptop is a Toshiba Tecra R10-112<br />Display - 14" LED backlight 1280 x 800 / WXGA<br />Graphics - Intel GMA 4500MHD<br />Specs: http://uk.insight.com/en-gb/productinfo/laptops/TOYA0670S<br /><br /><br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>