centos7 the bad
i'm going to miss visual studio. that ide is pretty awesome. vim and gdb. sigh. gnome in centos7 has a few boogs. the first one i encountered was trying to configure my displays. i have three. and they're all vertical. the gnome display gui thinks they're 1920 wide. which is their unrotated width. so i can't place them correctly using the tool. it was kinda weird to have the cursor and windows disappear for 500+ pixels between screens. fortunately the configuration is a text file in my home directory. it was easy to edit manually. and copied it to gdm. which is the thing that does the gnome gui log in thing at startup. the other major boog is when the screens are locked, sometimes one remains black. usually the rightmost one. but sometimes the center one. the workaround is to unlock, re-lock, and re-unlock the screens. which was a bigassed pain when timmer had a password. and not so much not that it doesn't. it also doesn't seem to happen as much anymore either. weird.