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 >