There are two ways to install gnome-shell on Natty. First is to use jhbuild to compile from source and second is to install binary package. In this tutorial, I will show you how to do so with the second method.
Natty repository ships gnome-shell package but this gnome-shell is outdated and is not even working because it’s not compiled with gtk3. So I go for ritcoz’s version. Some people said ritcoz’s gnome-shell no longer works and he discontinued the project but I find it quite not true. In fact, ritcoz still works on it right now. Now I opt for the official gnome3-team PPA. If you happened to use ritcoz, please remove that ppa and all of its packages and replace it with gnome3-team PPA instead.
Now first you need to have Ubuntu Natty beta installed on your machine, and then adding ritcoz’s PPA official GNOME3 PPA:
sudo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/staging/ubuntu natty maindeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu natty main sudo apt-get update
next we install gnome-shell and its dependencies:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
and we can start using gnome-shell:
gnome-shell --replace
if gnome-shell works well, you can have it started up by default by changing the /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager key from metacity to gnome-shell with gconf-editor. But I prefer gnome3-session, this gnome-session variant will do all that tedious job for you. You need to remove gnome-session before install gnome3-session:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-session-* sudo apt-get install gnome3-session
then log out, once you are at GDM, choose your Session GNOME3 and give it a try if it works. If it does, we could remove all GNOME2 stuff like gnome-panel
sudo apt-get remove gnome-panel* gnome-applets*
There are more libs and packages to be deprecated, I will try to update this post with more unused GNOME2 packages as I could. Feel free to subscribe to this post and let me know your experience with gnome-shell.
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It works like crap lol. I did exactly what you said here.
I am using the latest version of Ubuntu 11.04.
And when I ran gnome-shell –replace… the hell broke loose.
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Brb w/ more details.
ritcoz ppa is not a prefered ppa anymore, please remove that ppa and use this ppa instead deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu natty main
Works great, thank you.
Can we do anything to change the theme? It kinda sucks bigtime? Feels like 1995
there is only one default theme right now and there is no control panel pref to change theme.
im sure that there is only one theme but i doubt its the one that me or him are looking at. you’ve seen the screenshots, does that look like 95? Raleigh is the Gtk+ theme and User Theme Extentioin is not enabled according to the tweek tool.
second post, sorry… subscribing to page
I found what my conflict was, but im not sure what I did. there is still a bit of fiddeling a bit to do with gnome3-session which doesn’t install via synaptic but gnome-session-bin does.
Just remove gnome3-session, and just 3hrs ago, the new gnome-session from Gnome3 PPA does all the hard job for you. Give it a try
Tried it, but the system broke
Fortunately I dropped to a recovery shell and managed to remove Gnome3 with ppa-purge (instructions here). That got me back to Unity without a problem.
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