Now if you just installed Ubuntu12.10 and now wanna work on Gnome 3.6 desktop environment.Here is the way how you can have the latest gnome desktop on top of your latest Ubuntu 12.10 OS.
Following are the commands:
Open your terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+T and then copy and paste the following command.
During installation you will be asked whether you want to install GDM or LightDM.You can choose GDM in order to get the good looking login screen. LightDM will give the old unity type login screen.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
It may be possible that you may get the above warning... Press Enter to continue....
gksu apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
sudo gedit /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css
Finally, you can install gnome tweak tool in order to tweak your new gnome 3.6 .Following is the command you can use to get your gnome tweak tool....
Following are the commands:
Open your terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+T and then copy and paste the following command.
During installation you will be asked whether you want to install GDM or LightDM.You can choose GDM in order to get the good looking login screen. LightDM will give the old unity type login screen.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
It may be possible that you may get the above warning... Press Enter to continue....
gksu apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
Now in order to believe that you have installed the latest gnome 3.6 desktop environment on top of latest Ubuntu12.10 you can again copy and paste the following command.
gnome-shell --version
Now you can restart your laptop in order to start working on your latest gnome 3.6 desktop environment and select the gnome environment while log in.
After installing the gnome desktop environment you must be feeling that the icon size in the activity tab are very large.You can customize the icon size and set according the way you want.
Following is the way you can set the icon size.Copy and paste the below command in your terminal.
You can use Ctrl+F to search for .icon-grid and .icon-grid .overview-icon
you will find the following values...
.icon-grid {
spacing: 36px;
-shell-grid-horizontal-item-size: 118px;
-shell-grid-vertical-item-size: 118px;
}
.icon-grid .overview-icon {
icon-size: 96px;
}
Change it to :
.icon-grid {
spacing: 25px;
-shell-grid-horizontal-item-size: 118px;
-shell-grid-vertical-item-size: 118px;
}
.icon-grid .overview-icon {
icon-size: 50px;
}
Save it .That's it. Run alt+f2+r to reload the window.Now you will see the icons size as shown in the following figure. 1
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| Fig. 1 |
Again one more important thing. In gnome 3.6 you won't be able to find the maximize or minimize button in window. In order to get that, type the following command in your terminal window.Just copy and paste.
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides button-layout close,minimize,maximize:
That's it. Now you will be able to see the maximize,minimize button on your window as shown in the figure. 2. See the top left corner. Now you are able to see the minimize and maximize buttons.
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| Fig. 2 |
Finally, you can install gnome tweak tool in order to tweak your new gnome 3.6 .Following is the command you can use to get your gnome tweak tool....
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
The tweak tool looks like this...You can get the different shell extensions and you can do much more than you thought by using this tweak tool.
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| Fig. 3 |
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