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How to install the full GNOME desktop as close to upstream as possible?

rated 0 times [ 9] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 29813 / 2 Years ago, tue, july 5, 2022, 8:33:45

Just like the title says. I don't want just Gnome Shell I want to know how to install the whole entire desktop, with the latest GDM(not the 3.0.4 currently in the repos), all the default apps, all of it. I want to have a gnome desktop as pure as the latest Fedora, but of course I don't actually want to use fedora I been a Ubuntu user for years.

Any ideas? or am I crazy? I cant find anyone else doing this, though I have found a few other people who want to do it.

I currently have Gnome Shell 3.4, but I cant figure out how to install the new login screen, and I don't know what apps install by default other than epiphany and empathy, I also don't know if there is still more missing than just those things listed.

I would really enjoy the full Gnome 3 experience.

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answered 2 Years ago termetalli · Accepted Answer

It depends upon what you understand by "pure gnome-3". Obviously each distro pulls in components its developers consider makes up a great combined release.

Fedora and Ubuntu have different views. The Gnome-Shell developers work on a core set of applications that each distro either includes by default or is available in their respective repositories.

Since you mentioned Fedora and its default applications- then you should consider the following:

Install gnome-shell - How do I install and use the latest version of GNOME?

Remove Unity - How can you remove Unity?

Install GDM and remove lightdm - How do I switch from LightDM to GDM?

Install Default Applications - evolution , epiphany

Remove applications - consider removing Gwibber, Remmina, Firefox, and Thunderbird.

Other GNOME goodies - consider installing the gnome package

As an aside - for the most part, the Ubuntu developers have been very conscious to not (as far as reasonably possible) to change the gnome-shell experience. For example PrintScr in gnome-shell doesnt prompt you for the save location whereas in Unity it does. Therefore - out-of-the-box Gnome-Shell in 12.04 Ubuntu is much closer to the Gnome 3 developers vision.

Behind the scenes - Fedora contains elements such as SystemD which you will not have in Ubuntu (Upstart).