GNOME 2 + Compiz equivalent?
- by virtualeyes
Running Fedora 14 and realize I need to either change distros or find an alternative to GNOME 3 in Fedora 17.
Based on what I have read to-date, XFCE and KDE are the go-to WMs if I want to avoid GNOME 3.
I tried KDE 4 and I wasn't impressed; I like the simplicity of GNOME 2 with Compiz and Emerald.
Can't stay on Fedora 14 forever, however, so...where to turn?
Basically looking for these features in my desktop environment:
GNOME Do or equivalent
Snap to grid/Window tiling
A must-have, the ability to hot key focused window to a monitor grid region is a huge productivity win.
Zoom window to cursor
In a multi-monitor setup sometimes it's nice to, say, GNOME Do terminal in one monitor and then hot key the opened window to the other monitor just by zipping the mouse cursor anywhere on target monitor (followed by, of course, snap-to-grid hotkey, all without a single mouse click)
Polarization
At night white background hurts the eyes, so I prefer to hot key polarize to black.
Multi-monitor support
I'm partial to Fedora given that I've worked with CentOS for years and have little experience with any other Linux distro; however, if the difference between Fedora and Arch, Mint, etc. is fairly subtle, I'll make the leap, just need a distro & desktop environment that allows me to be productive with keyboard hot keys and provides the above basic features.
Any suggestions?
