How to Unfuck your System after Accidentally installing Gnome3

Fucking shitballs.  In the process of trying to install openssh I accidentally upgraded the entire operating system, which put gnome3 on instead of gnome2.  Why the fuck do people make a "new version" of a piece of software that is compeletely different than the old one?  Imagine if the major league baseball people incremented a version number and you suddenly had cricket.


So now we're back to this game where I'm on my way out the door,  and boot up linux just to check my shopping list, and suddenly realize everything is fucked up and now I need to try to fix it.


this might help:

http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html

shit that didn't work.

ah, some lovely forum posts from the fuckrags: liking gnome2 means you were doing it wrong.

and other fuckrags who think graphical window managers should only be navigated by the keyboard.  Of course!  its not like there's a CLI for that or anything.

I need to start doing this:  "People who like chocolate ice cream are far less intelligent than me!"

Might just try XFCE again: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce

this is a work in progress....

Ok, going back to gnome2 isn't an option.  I'm SOL right now.  This is partly because of Arch's rolling releases; however those wouldn't be so bad if morons didnt reinvent their stupid ass software.

The...most correct option here is to create a fork of gnome2 for other gnome users that want to be left alone.  I don't have time for that;  I can't stick my fingers into every piece of ancilliary software that I need when its developers get hardons for doing something they incorrectly think is really cool.

Really don't have an answer here;  maybe go back to windows.  I mean, I already hate it, and I won't wake up in the morning and find gnome3 or ubuntu's shittastic window manager installed, and I'm forced to use it by Starcraft and now this project I'm doing with some Microsofties.  It really sucks when those guys actually want to use their own software.

I think I've at least managed to turn off all the gay sounds gnome3 was making at me.  Nothing dulls the pain like small victories.

[Edit]
Figured I'd at least try:   https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=956708#p956708


[Edit]
gnome3 just decided it would stop working completely.
XFCE just gave me a first-class terminal icon the first time I ran it.  I think I'm in love.  Well, not love, but a complete lack of hate.  I don't think this window manager was programmed by morons.


Switch to  XFCE


1)  To get ctrl+alt+backspace back, put the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-zap.conf :

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard    "yes"
    Option  "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection



2)  to setup Ctrl+Alt+A to open a terminal, edit

./.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml

find this section:

        <property name="custom" type="empty">


and add:

            <property name="<Control><Alt>a" type="string" value="exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator"/>






3)  reclaim ctrl+alt+shift to move window to next workspace with you:


Applications Menu -- Settings -- Window Manager


Double click on "Move window to {upper,bottom,left,right} workspace"


Then you have to actually press the keys, but its not too bad.




4) when you have everything set up the way you like it, use the "log out" think instead of ctrl+alt+backspace, because it waits until to save your settings (??)