FWIW whenever I boot Kali and get stuck with Gnome 3 (at least that's 
what I think that abomination is), I can't do much of anything. It's 
actively worse than Win 10 / Mac OSX, though part of it might be the 
live CD part of it. In day to day I have converted many people to XFCE4 
which seems far more sane, in _my_ experience.

James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University

On 10/13/2016 04:51 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 13/10/16 03:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:08 PM, MAH Maccallum
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Andrew. I will check those possibilities. A problem
>>> with the graphics drivers seems likely in that I get the same
>>> result with my default (test) user as with my own personal login.
>>> However, logging in as root gives a perfectly normal Gnome
>>> screen.So it may be that somehow a permission got changed.
>>> What's odd is that this all happened in the course of moving
>>> the cursor around and the abrt error message suggests it was
>>> moving the cursor across the clock that caused the problem.
>>
>> Gnome is *not the friend of getting work done*. Seriously. It's become
>> so driven that it interferes with actual work.
>
> That's your experience.
>
> My experience with GNOME 3 on SL7.2 is that is vastly have improved
> workflow.  A lot of it comes through very handy keyboard shortcuts and a
> handful of GNOME Shell extensions.  In fact I can't imagine any sane
> reason to move back to GNOME 2 or anything else - it just feels so
> clumsy and horrid to work with for me.  Everything just runs very
> smoothly and fine on my ThinkPad T450s.
>
> But this is /my/ experience.
>
>
>
> --
> kind regards,
>
> David Sommerseth
>
>
>   - If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have
>     said "faster horses." -Henry Ford
>