{"id":9500,"date":"2016-07-19T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9500"},"modified":"2016-07-18T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:35:59","slug":"fit-and-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/fit-and-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"fit and finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve had my Gnome3 desktop up and running for a while (because Unity <Em>has not improved with time<\/em>), and mostly things are okay! <em>But<\/eM> there are small things bugging me.<\/p>\n<p>My desktop, in tiny form, for reference:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-07\/why-whole-desktop.jpg\"><br \/><i>Yes, that offset <B>is intentional<\/b>. The monitor mounting points don&#8217;t match.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ONE: Why aren&#8217;t these tips being clipped?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-07\/why-is-this.jpg\"><br \/><i>Peek-a-boo!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All the windows have them. Sometimes they&#8217;re black. So some sort of clipping isn&#8217;t. Is this because I&#8217;m using the open-source nvidia driver instead of the official one, or is something else going on?<\/p>\n<p>TWO: I can&#8217;t run gnome-tweak-tool because it fails out if you don&#8217;t run pulseaudio. Is there a way around that? I suspect I might be able to solve item one if I could run item two.<\/p>\n<p>THREE: I can make a link on the desktop to directories with ln -s, of course. But if I make one to Dropbox, the local-instance directory path ends up being \/home\/kahvi\/Desktop\/Dropbox instead of \/home\/kahvi\/Dropbox, and <Em>even if I put things in the directory, and it is the right directory, Dropbox won&#8217;t sync it<\/em> because the local reference at time of addition was wrong, and it never notices later so never syncs.<\/p>\n<p>I can alt-F2 and type &#8220;Dropbox&#8221; and get the folder with the right local path, but that&#8217;s kind of lame. I can also pull up the Dropbox mini-app and go through a couple of menus to get there, but that&#8217;s also kind of lame. It&#8217;d be nicer if I could just click on the icon like I used to do. Or better yet, drag onto the icon, that&#8217;d be best.<\/p>\n<p>None of these are really big deals, but it&#8217;d be nice to get them worked out, so if you have some tips, throw them into comments? Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve had my Gnome3 desktop up and running for a while (because Unity has not improved with time), and mostly things are okay! But there are small things bugging me. My desktop, in tiny form, for reference: Yes, that offset is intentional. The monitor mounting points don&#8217;t match. ONE: Why aren&#8217;t these tips being [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9503,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions\/9503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}