Gnome-shell is the thing; /me is back to gnome again. Almost 4 days without ratpoison, that’s the longest since 2007 
I had small stints with XFCE and musca in the middle.
Folks on Arch, get it from [gnome-unstable]. Here’s a post describing the process. Just note that, you must add the entry at before [extra], [community] in pacman.conf.
[gnome-unstable] is cutting edge stuff, some of the things break, including segfaults. If you have strong dependency like gnome-must-work-with-my-customizations, please wait until April.
I’m loving the life of a gnome-newbie so far. If you’re stuck with some settings, gnome developer documentation can help you with a hint.
Some tips learned (please correct me if I am wrong) so far -
- Gnome-shell seems to have a dependency on gdm. The “User Account” system doesn’t work in the expected way. So for folks moving from boot-to-console “init 3″ to boot-into-X “init 5″, refer archwiki. This will help you setup “gdm”.
- You’d need Pulseaudio for the default audio keys and gnome-sound-applet to work. Else your sound settings in gnome-control-settings will be greyed out. Thanks to folks at #archlinux.
- Changing themes and icons was a tough one. Here’s how the thing works currently:
- Most of the gnome3.0 settings seem to be managed by gsettings.
- The available settings are XML files, stored at /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas. For example, org.gnome.desktop.interface seems to store the settings for gtk-theme and icon-theme
- So how would you change the default icon-theme for system?
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Faenza
Faenza is my icon theme.
But I still don’t know where the settings are saved. Need to poke around more
Great tip, bookmarked. Now if only I can figure out how to change the gtk-theme. They claim gnome3 apps are backwards compatible with old themes… but when I do “gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme Equinox” there is nothing but fail.
At least window decorations still config through gconf.
Last time I checked, Equinox was not GTK 3.0 compatible. You can check in
/usr/share/themes/[theme_name]/gtk-3.0. Adwaita and Gnome3 are the only themes that support gtk 3 at this moment I think.However for GTK 2.0 apps, you can still use gtk-chtheme
Sweet. Thanks. I really like the aesthetics of Adwaita but it’s kinda a bummer they don’t have a “netbook/condensed” version that’s a little less vertically demanding. Ah well, at least it’s all css so I’ll just edit spacing and padding where it’s needed, and change my gtk2 theme with your tip.
Hi I have problems with window borders. Thay didn’t change to adwaita. Anyway I can change them in dconf/gconf? Here is my screenshot.
http://file.si/public/view/full/163801
Christooss, I was facing this problem for a while. But upgrading to gnome-shell 2.91.92 fixed it for me. Which build are you running?
I’m using Gnome3 PPA from Gnome3 team. https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
Gnome shell 2.91.93
I upgraded to 2.91.93, but unable to reproduce your issue. Sorry
You may want to ask this to gnome-shell mailing list, someone will be able to help you.
To edit all these settings install dconf-tools and run dconf-editor. “org.gnome.desktop.applications” holds most of the interface settings. =)
I am mighty!
“org.gnome.desktop.interface” rather.
still mighty.
Thanks Tamara
And there’s https://live.gnome.org/GnomeTweakTool which makes things more awesome 
I just get there with some googleing.btw awesome tip.ı am getting used to gnome 3 and this made my ubuntu much more better than it’s.Thanks
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