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[http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell GNOME Shell] is intended to be a key part of the new user experience for GNOME 3. It provides many features including the following: | [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell GNOME Shell] is intended to be a key part of the new user experience for GNOME 3. It provides many features including the following: | ||
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== How to use it == | == How to use it == | ||
In GNOME, go to System => Preferences => Desktop Effects to enable it | |||
Once GNOME Shell is activated, in the side bar, use the menu to disable it | Once GNOME Shell is activated, in the side bar, use the menu to disable it | ||
Revision as of 09:17, 30 August 2009
GNOME Shell is intended to be a key part of the new user experience for GNOME 3. It provides many features including the following:
* Launching applications * Opening files * Switching between open windows * Adding and deleting workspaces * Moving windows between workspaces * Dynamic system-related information display (including transient notifications) * Providing a flat list of user-account related actions * Logging out or switching the session, and stopping or restarting the machine
How to use it
In GNOME, go to System => Preferences => Desktop Effects to enable it
Once GNOME Shell is activated, in the side bar, use the menu to disable it
Individual Components
Clutter - A high level openGL based graphics library and toolkit that is used in a number of places to provide smooth and flicker free animations and transition effects including Moblin, Media Center applications and in GNOME shell as well.
Mutter - A branch of Metacity ( GNOME 2 Window Manager) with support for Clutter
Gjs - GNOME Javascript bindings relying on the engine from Mozilla. A number of GNOME Shell extensions are written in JavaScript using Gjs.