Gnome 3

My last post reflected a lot about compiz , recently i came across Gnome 3 , i am going to post my experiences with Gnome 3 in this latest installment of my techblog post.

1. This shell is amazingly cool in terms of application invocation "Until now we used Gnome-do to do fast application invocation " ,
2. In gnome 3 shell click the super button on the laptop and the screen below gets invoked just type in the program just the way you use gnome do and it will work just liked gnome-do
3. Moving windows with in workspaces is even better than Gnome 3 just tap windows button now just move windows through work spaces

Now for the instructions on how to install it. This is meant for ubuntu natty

• sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
• now if you have intel graphics card then run export GNOME_SHELL_DISABLE_TFP=1
• Then run "gnome-shell --replace"
• Now this by default does not bring in all the things like battery status for which you will have to run sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager
• You can also enable a dock by installing apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-dock

This will have your cool Gnome 3 shell up in natty will add lucid later to list .. till then have fun :)