Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 07:51:16AM -0400, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > Sorry, I should get to the end before I respond!
> 
> That's okay, Lisi, I do that, too, especially when trying to work
> e-mail with a tablet.
> 
> And this gives me a chance to elucidate on my situation. I have liked
> and used Debian for at least 10 years (after 10+ years with Yggdrasil,
> Redhat, Fedora), but, as GNOME 2 was giving way to GMOE 3 (ugh) [...]

Similar here, with different outcome. After a short affair with XFCE
(and having seen that all are moving towards "desktop", willy-nilly
replacing library interfaces with DBUS and similar horrors) I ditched
desktop altogether.

> SHAMELESS PLUG: Please keep MATE as part of Deb 9..*!!

My significant one is on MATE (after I told her to try Gnome 3 and she
nearly threw the computer at me[1] ;-) so I have an interest in a working
MATE too. Although for me personally it's already far too Rube Goldberg.

regards

[1] Everyone is entitled to her own judgment, I thought. Perhaps it's
   just me, averse to change, I thought.

- -- tomás
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