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by bho 5452 days ago
Dropbox's sync indicator is still in the corner for me, just as it always has been, so it seems to work fine.

How is everyone's alt-tab performance? I've been trying to like it, but alt-tab is so slow that it's barely usable. I don't have another GNOME3 computer to compare it to, so I don't know if it's something wrong with my configuration or hardware.
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nodata 5452 days ago
alt+tab is the same speed as it always was. are you running on a really old pc by any chance?

Things I dislike about Gnome 3.0:

* Alt-tab is between apps, with alt+(thing above tab) for between windows in an app

* Super+L doesn't work from the zoomed out view

* Screen lock is partially broken: gnome-screensaver doesn't guarantee to lock the screen when switching users or suspending. It continues on whatever happens.

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nuclear_eclipse 5452 days ago
> with alt+(thing above tab) for between windows in an app

Wow, I really wish I would have known about that a long time ago. Alt-tab only working between applications was so annoying that I found an extension that reverted to an old-school alt-tab behavior, except now it operates between all windows regardless of what workspace they are on...

Alt-` is fantastic.

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ARussell 5452 days ago
I dislike the Alt+Tab behavior so much that I just filed a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654645
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tapoxi 5452 days ago
I've been running Gnome 3 on Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 (via the PPA) on my Thinkpad W500 since April or so.

This laptop has a discrete (FireGL 5700) and integrated graphics (GMA 4500) chip I can toggle between for power management reasons. No performance issues, alt-tab or otherwise, under either.

It's been such a solid desktop that it's been my main development environment for these past few months.

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thricedotted 5452 days ago
On my rather average 3-yo laptop without dedicated graphics, Alt-Tab works great if the system load is low, but if I have a lot of things going on, it can take a second to pop up.

Oddly, Super seems to work with less lag (though it stutters) than Alt-Tab for me while I'm running something resource-intensive.

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thingie 5452 days ago
Good. No problem.

On the other hand, typing anything in the activities overlay is very painful. I do it only by a mistake, because it's sooo slow, not only for the first time, but always. So is switching from Windows to Applications.

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