Assuming that you found Gnome 2 more acceptable than MS Win 8 or 10, etc., may I strongly recommend MATE? I have this GUI/manager installed on all my SL 7 boxes, as well as on a Mint box for a colleague (the laptop in that case came pre-installed with Mint -- leaving it was much less work than starting from scratch with the current EL 7 installation DVD). Note that for full functionality, one must install essentially all of the MATE RPMs otherwise small but convenience-necessa bits are missing. Yasha Karant On 10/13/2016 08:41 AM, James M. Pulver wrote: > 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 >>