I'm just wondering why there isn't a gnome-flashback package, similar to the Ubuntu package? gnome-flashback is essentially gnome-2.

Thanks,

Art Edwards

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On Tue, May 19, 2020, at 10:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:45 PM Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I've done my feeble best to compile Mate for CentOS 8; my
> > result is not completely broken, but not ready for use.
> > Some of the graphics fails.  "Mate8" seems to leak memory.
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:08:34PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > There is a thread on the CentOS mailing list about Mate for el8 that you
> > may want to take a look:
> > 
> > lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-May/350284.html
> 
> Thanks for that;  about six messages down that thread is
> a pointer to a webpage discussing compiled packages:
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__copr.fedoracloud.org_coprs_stenstorp_MATE&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=Q6LCVHs6caad7nOhlIGsnO-ZZUhyem88W6GHqfhenh8&s=7XyJM3wNZhcVzu5ozYZvc9sKtl4zp0lRlr7HMXiXXP8&e= 
> 
> I will copy my borked home compilations to backups, then
> install that version of MATE.  Many of us are installing
> MATE; I probably made my clumsy attempts prematurely.
> 
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> To others who suggest alternate ways to use linux ... thanks,
> but I'm an old dog, and a gnome2 user since it was a puppy.
> MATE comes closest.  
> 
> My "new trick" schedule is overloaded with math and physics
> skills that I hope to learn soon, skills that would have
> been much easier to learn 50 years ago.
> 
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> 
> Finding the gnome3 text rendering flaw will be more difficult. 
> That flaw is why my subnotebooks still run SL6.
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
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