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