Tag Archives: gnome3

Power Off comes back in GNOME

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Gnome, opensource

Democracy always wins!! It took almost two years for GNOME Developers to release that the majority of users were unhappy with the Suspend option instead of the standard Power Off.

GNOME 3.6 is getting serious with Initial System Setup

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in News

GNOME 3.4.1 released a few days ago, but its progress didn’t stop. The releasing cycle for 3.6 has already begun. To be honest, I don’t think that 3.4 release was quite exciting, apart maybe from GTK 3.4 that brought a … Continue reading

Lefebvre ‘Clem’ gives new ‘Cinnamon DE’, for the good old Gnome 2x experience

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux distributions, Linux Mint, News, opensource, Software

Clement Lefebvre, the developer and force behind Linux Mint, continues to find ways to retain the user experience and performance of traditions of Gnome Shell, by forking Gnome 3. Cinnamon is the new desktop environment created around the Gnome 3.2, … Continue reading

After New Gnome 3.2 , What is likely to make it to Gnome 3.4?

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

The last week of September, saw the release of Gnome 3.2 and work will now begin on its next version Gnome 3.4. GNOME, the desktop environment, which went in for major overhaul with its version 3.0 is continuing to introduce … Continue reading

Nice themes for Gnome shell

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Software

Here are 2 nice themes for Gnome shell. Delta shell

Trending Gnome 3 alternative distros

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

Gnome3 on its release on April 6 2011 was touted as the next generation of GNOME in nine long years. The highlight of Gnome 3, is the brand new user interface for new, modern desktop for modern technologies. Besides, Gnome … Continue reading

turn on "fallback" mode of GNOME3 on Fedora15

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Fedora

Question: How  to turn on “fallback” mode of GNOME3 ? Answer :   Fallback mode is GNOME 3′s more GNOME 2-like mode of operation for people without hardware 3D – or who just don’t like the GNOME Shell. To activate … Continue reading

Should GNOME take the plunge to become a Linux-Only OS?

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in News

A correspondence between two key people at GNOME has set a flutter, neigh a quake of level 4-5 in the Opensource world. What could termed to be nothing more than routine technical discussions, bordering on being slightly aspiring in nature, … Continue reading

Installing Gnome Tweak Tool on Natty

Written by Convexity on . Posted in Ubuntu

If you’ve been a follower of the Gnome Shell development, you’re most likely aware that there isn’t any ‘GUI’ tool available to customize the interface itself. Some of these customizations may include changing the basic GTK+ theme, or perhaps, switching … Continue reading

How to install Gnome3 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty via PPA

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Ubuntu

Everybody knows that Ubuntu11.04 has Unity as default desktop, with the arrival of Gnome 3, many users want to test this in Ubuntu11.04 Natty. In this quick post will show you how to install Gnome3 on Ubuntu11.04 Natty. Default desktop … Continue reading