Re: Alternative GUI

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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


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