Tom Willemsen
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Gnome-shell in Ubuntu 9.10
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
sudo apt-get install gnome-shelland starting it afterwards was easy too
gnome-shell -r
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.