and switching between windows. GNOME Shell replaced GNOME Panel and some ancillary components of GNOME 2. GNOME Shell is written in C and JavaScript as...
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Notifications appear from the top of the shell. Beginning with GNOME 3.8, GNOME provides a suite of officially supported GNOME Shell extensions that provide an Applications...
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Cinnamon (desktop environment) (redirect from Cinnamon GNOME)
of GNOME 3, in which the conventional desktop metaphor of GNOME 2 was discarded in favor of GNOME Shell. Following several attempts to extend GNOME 3 so...
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to access a UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop. GNOME Terminal (gnome-terminal from the command line or GNOME's Alt-F2 launcher) emulates...
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It used a pure GNOME 3 desktop environment with GNOME Shell, rather than the Unity graphical shell. Starting with version 13.04 it became an official...
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GNOME Files, formerly and internally known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. GNOME Files, same as Nautilus, is a free and...
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involved in GNOME. GNOME Project is involved in development of a range of notable software, including: GNOME Shell – Graphical shell of the GNOME desktop...
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different user interface. It was the first GNOME release to utilize a unified graphical shell known as GNOME Shell. It also introduced support for the Wayland...
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GNOME Files (formerly named Nautilus). sushi was first introduced in GNOME Shell 3.2. Its sole purpose is to preview files in Nautilus, which can be invoked...
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The GNOME Core Applications (also known as Apps for GNOME) are a software suite of software applications that are packaged as part of the standard free...
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It was the default screenshot software in GNOME until it was replaced by a built-in utility in GNOME Shell version 42. It provides several options, including...
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Adwaita (design language) (redirect from GNOME Human Interface Guidelines)
design language of the GNOME desktop environment. As an implementation, it exists as the default theme and icon set of the GNOME Shell and Phosh, and as widgets...
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Phosh (redirect from GNOME Mobile)
announcement, Purism released mockups of Phosh that resembled a modified GNOME Shell. This eventually became known as the Librem 5. In April 2018, Purism...
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became a function of GDM and GNOME Shell by default. GNOME Screensaver continued to be used by the GNOME Fallback mode until GNOME Fallback was deprecated...
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GNOME Web, called Epiphany until 2012 and still known by that code name, is a free and open-source web browser based on the GTK port of Apple's WebKit...
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Mutter (software) (category GNOME)
window manager for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell, which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible...
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personal information manager for GNOME. It has been an official part of GNOME since Evolution 2.0 was included with the GNOME 2.8 release in September 2004...
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Wayland (protocol) (redirect from XDG-Shell protocol)
have a full Wayland session. GNOME 3.22 included much improved Wayland support across GTK, Mutter, and GNOME Shell. GNOME 3.24 shipped support for the...
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distribution is offered in five desktop environments; Official (modified KDE), GNOME, KDE, Steam-HTPC (modified KDE, customized to look/feel like Steam Deck;...
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(gdm-host-chooser) Greeter – the graphical login window (provided by GNOME Shell) Pluggable authentication module (PAM) X Display Manager Control Protocol...
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"46.1 · Tags · GNOME / gnome-disk-utility · GitLab". 3 September 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/tags/41...
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Unity (user interface) (redirect from Unity shell)
the GNOME stack, GNOME applications, and optimize Ubuntu for GNOME. The only difference, he wrote, would be that Unity is a different shell for GNOME. Canonical...
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GNOME Boxes is an application of the GNOME Desktop Environment, used to access virtual systems. Boxes uses the QEMU, KVM, and libvirt virtualization technologies...
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reinstalling. The default desktop environment is GNOME, and the default user interface is the GNOME Shell. Other desktop environments are available, including...
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GNOME Keyring is a software application designed to store security credentials such as usernames, passwords, and keys, together with a small amount of...
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graphical front-ends for diverse graphical desktop environments, such as GNOME Shell, GNOME Panel, KDE Plasma Workspaces, Cinnamon, etc. Both components are intended...
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Owen (March 23, 2009). "Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28". desktop-devel-list (Mailing list). gnome-shell is set up as a Mutter plugin that is largely...
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Ubuntu, using the Cinnamon desktop environment in place of Ubuntu's GNOME Shell. The first release was 19.10 'Eoan Ermine' on December 4, 2019, and is...
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parts from applications. These have first-class support in GNOME Shell and are widely used by GNOME applications. Universal Windows Platform applications can...
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