Holy fucking Hell, what happened to the GUI in Debian ?

[eppur_se_muova]

There's a new "Activities" button in place of the Application and Places menus. Clicking on it takes you into a workspace-oriented mode, with all your open windows shrunken to illegibility, a dock on the left, and a list of workspaces on the right. Every time you want to launch a new app, you have to go into this mode again -- very inefficient and awkward. If you go into the Advanced Settings and browse through the Shell Extensions, you'll find an Application Menu extension at the very bottom of the list. Turning it on creates a Gnome (footprint) menu where the Application menu used to be. The new menu is uglier and more awkward.

If anyone knows how to kill this Activities menu/workspace, I'd like to hear about it. Maybe replace Gnome ??

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Try this...

https://nls1729.github.io/

[eppur_se_muova]

2. OK, thanks. It's somehow disappeared now !

I installed the Nvidia drivers and it went away -- don't see what the connection is. After trying to fix endless error messages warning me that the installers from Nvidia are incompatible and that I should use the Debian nividia-installer, I now have no GUI at all. Apparently the xserver is not intelligent enough to grab the ONLY screen available at bootup -- you have to give it a properly structured .conf file for it to know that you'd actually want to, you know, show stuff on a screen.

[PowerToThePeople]

3. I have had some issues with Jesse, Wheezy worked better for me.

I use LXDE as my GUI. Clean, simple, with a menu system similar to what you used to have on the main commercial pc operating system.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. I tried installing lxde-core and other components with apt-get, got lots of error messages ...

without even scrollback capability, I can't figure out what they are.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. You install full distro?

When I build a new system, I typically install base with net-install and build from there. Too many conflicting programs if you do everything at once. At least that has been my experience.

Both of my Jesse systems were dist-upgrade from Wheezy and probably dist-upgrades from Lenny before that. They have been around a while. Could it be partitioning? The only time I have seen errors is when partitions get full. Since I partitioned for older distro (and made them tight to save space) I have run into this.

check this out.

http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-check-disk-space-in-linux/

[eppur_se_muova]

6. This was originally full-distro, I borked it with the Nvidia installers ...

if you don't install Nvidia drivers the way Debian expects, the result is undending woe. After I finish the running jobs, I'm going to nuke the partition and replace Debian with something else.