> GNOME 2 was perfect. … MATE … It’s not perfect …

Is MATE worse than GNOME 2 used to be?

I just switched to MATE and I have run into all sorts of odd bugs.

1. If I position an external monitor above the primary, I can’t put any windows in the overlapping portion along the x axis.

2. If I disconnect and reconnect the external monitor, maximized windows return to their original monitor but half-maximized windows don’t.

3. If I disconnect and reconnect the external monitor, the background becomes tiled instead of zoomed with Marco + compositing and it blacks out and the desktop flickers with Compiz.

4. With Compiz, I can constrain the window switcher across all windows to the current workspace but I cannot constrain the window switcher within app group to the current workspace.

5. With Marco + compositing, due to a regression, taking a screenshot of a single window includes the boundary around it that contains the window’s shadow.

There was something else too but I forget. Quite dispiriting but I have given up on finding the perfect desktop.