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+#+TITLE: Gnome-shell in Ubuntu 9.10
+#+DATE: 2009-12-11 10:35
+#+TAGS: gconf gnome gnome-panel gnome-shell linux ubuntu
+
+Even though ~gnome-shell~ is really only a preview of what is to come
+for gnome 3.0 and it's still buggy and sometimes not completely stable
+perhaps, I really like it.
+
+When I first saw the screenshots I was less then impressed, I thought
+it didn't at all look like anything new or innovative, but rather
+messy and confusing. But me being ever interested in new things and
+all I just had to give it a try (the ~gnome-panel~ look was starting to
+bore me).
+
+Installing was easy
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
+#+END_SRC
+
+and starting it afterwards was easy too
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  gnome-shell -r
+#+END_SRC
+
+Though first I had to disable compiz, which I don't really use anyway.
+I was also using ~avant-window-navigator~, which disappeared on me but
+still kept part of my notification area to itself. So the time after
+that I first closed AWN and all was as it should be.
+
+I didn't feel like having to manually start ~gnome-shell~ every time I
+logged in so I started looking into a way to replace ~metacity~ and
+~gnome-panel~ with ~gnome-shell~ and found that this could be done by
+editing your ~gconf~ (with, for example, ~gconf-editor~) and setting the
+~/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager~ key from
+~metacity~ to ~gnome-shell~.
+
+Of course, since it is a composited window manager you need a video
+card and driver that can handle screen compositing.