Comments on: Gnome Shell – Your Next Desktop Environment

By: hitfive

hitfive — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:19:39 +0000

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By: JoshPrice

JoshPrice — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:11:03 +0000

Since this was published, Gnome Shell is now available in the default Ubuntu repos, so much of this post is now unnecessary.

For the record though, .bashrc should be in your home directory, and the buttons can be moved with the command:

gconftool-2 –set “/apps/metacity/general/button_layout” –type string “menu:minimize,maximize,close”

By: tag

tag — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:03:51 +0000

were is .bashrc file and will I be able to log in as usual in ubuntu 10.04? plus how do you move the buttons back to the left?

By: gavin

gavin — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:00:12 +0000

Is there a way of skinning the gnome-shell overview black to be white? I normally use Ubuntu with *inverted colors*, which means gnome-shell shows up as bright white. I prefer most everything to be black.

By: rnojonson

rnojonson — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:34:53 +0000

I had a 286 with DOS but it had a front end that made file search and program execution easy and fun, then came windows and it all went down the toilet. Gnome-shell is simple, fast and I understand it, except for themes. Turn side panel into Conky, cool, and Guake terminal and now I can do anything.

By: Andi Rady Kurniawan

Andi Rady Kurniawan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:43:25 +0000

Instead of running gnome-shell with Alt-F2, use the terminal, it'll be less buggy. At least that's what I experienced ;)

By: Daniel F.

Daniel F. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:14:17 +0000

I could really see this working well with devices such as netbooks and Internet tablets; I'm sure their recent popularity had some influence over the design. Definitely something I need to try as soon as I get my laptop working again.

By: KADDY

KADDY — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:13:25 +0000

http://gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?previ...

THIS SHOULD BECOME THE DEFAULT!!!!

By: Mangat Rai

Mangat Rai — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:26:43 +0000

Great Gnome goes Trendy now.

But I have a problem here. After starting Gnome Shell 3.0 Nothing on top panel seems to be working. I mean when I click on activities, nothing happen. Only network connections and deluge icons at right-top most seems to be working.

Please Somebody help me how to get it work.
Following are my details:-

Fedora 12, Compiz disabled,

By: Mangat Rai

Mangat Rai — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:26:00 +0000

Great Gnome goes Trendy now.

Please Somebody help me how to get it work.
Following are my details:-

Fedora 12, Compiz disabled,

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:28:13 +0000

You may not be trying Gnome Shell any more, but for anyone who is, I just found a solution to that problem.

The problems stems from the fact that the config files are telling gcc to treat warnings as errors, even though the warnings aren’t critical. If you open the makefile in ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src, just search for the like containing “-Werror” and remove that word. Rerun “jhbuild build” and it’ll work fine. At least, it did for me.

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:28:00 +0000

You may not be trying Gnome Shell any more, but for anyone who is, I just found a solution to that problem.

By: ubuntu4life

ubuntu4life — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:47:39 +0000

Good stuff.
But i hope they will make it optionally, flashier,better and easier.
At least,?they?, We all should participate and work at it !
Its easy to say here that it rocks or sucks, you/we are theoretically a Gnome developer to! Say what you think to them and help them/yourself with it.

Go Gnome !

By: ubuntu4life

ubuntu4life — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:47:00 +0000

Go Gnome !

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:12:05 +0000

the path given (~/gnome-shell/source/…) is the default location where the gnome-shell files should have been placed. Do you have a gnome-shell directory inside you Home?

As Gnome Shell is a work in progress and is still far from a stable release, you might have just had a bad build. If that directory is missing, I’d recommend cleaning up any traces and trying the install again in a day or two, in case it’s a bug in the package.

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:12:00 +0000

the path given (~/gnome-shell/source/…) is the default location where the gnome-shell files should have been placed. Do you have a gnome-shell directory inside you Home?

By: Jesdaddy

Jesdaddy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:52 +0000

This is the error message at
*** Error during phase configure of gjs: ########## Error running ./autogen.sh –prefix /home/eocansey/gnome-shell/install –libdir ‘/home/eocansey/gnome-shell/install/lib’ –disable-static –disable-gtk-doc *** [6/7]
what should I do?

By: Jesdaddy

Jesdaddy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:00 +0000

By: Jesdaddy

Jesdaddy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:36:31 +0000

I tried it but having errors can someone help. At the 6th and 7th stage of the module I was receiving errors which gave me options to choose and I chose 2 which is to skip the error. And after it has ended, when I run the last section, which is ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src/gnome-shell –replace this was the error I received.
No such file or directory.
Also after the bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh command. I got a message telling me to create a bin folder in it but I ignored since it was not in the procedure

By: Jesdaddy

Jesdaddy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:36:00 +0000