If you are using GNOME Shell with the latest Gnome 3 you may be wondering why you cannot Alt+Tab through your running applications. This is especially important since the panel and task bar no longer exists, making switching between applications especially difficult. To enable task switching with Alt+Tab you must configure metacity to support this [...]

The release of GNOME Shell and GNOME 3 is fast approaching. Unfortunately for many the latest build is nearly unusable due to the slow animation speed and lack of mouse responsiveness. If you have an NVIDIA graphics card you may be in luck as the fix is fairly simple. You need to change to the [...]

This is a bug in Firefox 3 where it launches into full screen mode and completely covers the top and bottom GNOME panels as well as its own title bar. While in this buggy mode Firefox cannot be resized, and can only be closed from within the menu. File -> Quit A temporary fix involves [...]

Use the Keyboard Shortcuts tool in GNOME to customize the default keyboard shortcuts for your system. If you have a laptop that has special media buttons you can configure them here as well. In some distributions such as Ubuntu these media buttons may be automatically configured but you may still need to fine tune them [...]