[andrepd]

> GNOME removed all UI controls for setting solid color backgrounds, but still technically supports it if you manually set a bunch of config keys — which seem to randomly change between versions

There's the peak GNOME experience.

[nullc]

My analogous gnome experience was that on my tv-computer I was using 4x scaling, because TV and because my distance vision stinks.

At some point they decided 2x (3x?) scaling was enough for anyone and took away 4x, I didn't notice because I was already set at 4x and it continued working. Somewhat later they took away the backend, and then my system crashed with no error message immediately at login.

After much troubleshooting replaced a movie night, I inquired about the functionality being removed and was berated for using an undocumented/unsupported feature (because I was continuing to use it after the interface to set it had been removed, without my knowledge).

I'll never use gnome again if I can help it.

[AHTERIX5000]

Or the display sleep menu which offers choices like 1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30 min timeout but no more than that unless you use external config editor.

[amlib]

30 minutes? That's a luxury! For me it has always been limited to 15 minutes in the GUI.

[lozf]

You can also use `gsettings set ...` on the CLI.

[CRConrad]

God forbid an input box in a GUI config dialog.