1. Gnome On Windows 10
  2. Install Gnome Ubuntu Windows 10
  3. Install Gnome On Windows 10
  4. Gnome Terminal Windows 10
  5. How To Install Gnome Terminal On Windows

Ubuntu 13.04 has recently hit and, from my perspective, it's a 'raring' hit. And though I find Unity one of the finest user interfaces available, there are those that haven't had the same experience. For those people, I'm going to run a short series on installing other desktops, so you don't have to avoid the Ubuntu experience.

In this first entry, I'm going to illustrate how you can get the latest release of GNOME installed and running. It's not even remotely difficult — but must be done through the command line.

But first.. why GNOME? Isn't GNOME 3 just a launcher away from being Unity? Yes and no. Some might find that the built-in compositor, Mutter, is far smoother than that of Unity. The desktop also takes a much more minimalist approach (without losing functionality). Other features to 3.8 that have made improvements over previous iterations, are:

  • Easier application launch: When you view the application overlay, you will notice a new tab at the bottom — Frequent/All (Figure A,click to enlarge). With this tab you can more easily find the apps you frequently open (without having to clutter up your launcher with too many apps).
  • Docs: Is the default document viewer for GNOME and includes built-in support for Google Docs.
  • Search optimization: From within the Search Settings pane (in the Settings tool), you can fine-tune search results.
  • Message Tray accessibility: Click Super+M to open and close the message tray and click Super+N to expand a notification.
  • Privacy: There's a new settings pane (in the Settings tool), where you can configure privacy and notification.
  • ownCloud support: Connect to your ownCloud account directly through the GNOME online accounts management tool.
  • Improved graphics rendering: You should find 3.8 to be a vast improvement over previous iterations of GNOME 3 in the way of graphics rendering. Video playback is much smoother and animations are seamless and slick.

If I've managed to tempt you enough to try, let's install.

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Installation

Here are the steps for installing GNOME 3.8 on your Ubuntu desktop:

  1. Open up a terminal window.
  2. Add the GNOME PPA repository with the command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
  3. Hit Enter.
  4. When prompted, hit Enter again.
  5. Update and install with this command: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop
  6. When prompted, select the login manager of choice (LightDM is the default Unity manager and GDM is the GNOME default — either will work).
  7. When the installation completes, close the terminal and reboot the system.
  8. Select GNOME at the login screen and log in.
  • Sudo yum -y groups install 'GNOME Desktop' Installing GNOME packages. It may take a while, so lay back and get some snacks. Step 4 – Configure the X window system. The program that runs a graphical environment on most Linux systems is called the X Window System. So, first, you’ll have to tell X that GNOME is the default DE that you want to use for the graphical environment. So enter this command: echo 'exec gnome-session' /.xinitrc.
  • Jun 28, 2018  If you want to try Ubuntu 13.04, but prefer a different desktop than Unity, Jack Wallen shows you how you can install the latest iteration of GNOME Shell (3.8) and why you should give it a try.

To test to make sure you have the latest version, open up a terminal window and issue the command gnome-shell —version. You should see something like GNOME Shell 3.8.1.

Install Tomboy from the Windows Installer (the MSI file) you've downloaded via Download page. Windows will need you to tell it to proceed with the install because it's from an Unknown Publisher: If you have SmartScreen enabled, you will get a scary blue screen saying Windows has protected your PC, click 'more' to see a 'Run anyway' button.

But if there are those that prefer the old GNOME, you can get your Classic GNOME on with a simple command. Do this:

  1. Open up a terminal window.
  2. Issue the command: sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
  3. Log out.
  4. Select GNOME Fallback.
  5. Log in.

You can now enjoy the old-fashioned, two-panel GNOME.

You don't have to avoid Ubuntu 13.04, just because you're not a fan of Unity. Remember, one of Linux's strong points has always been choice. Give GNOME 3.8 (or GNOME Classic) a try and see if you don't find a desktop that better suits your needs. I would, of course, highly recommend you give Unity another try. With the continued improvements seen in 13.04, I believe Unity has become one of the most efficient and user-friendly desktops available. But.. everyone has their own opinion (and I highly respect those opinions).

The real reason why Canonical and Microsoft brought Ubuntu to Windows 10 was to enable system administrators and developers to use Bash and other Linux shell programs, such as make, gawk and grep, on Windows. Linux users, being natural hackers, immediately started working on bringing Linux graphical desktops to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Guess what? They've done it.

A Guatemalan programmer who goes by the GitHub handle Guerra24, has 'managed to run Unity [Ubuntu's default desktop interface] inside WSL, this shows that is fully capable of running an entire Desktop Environment.'

This isn't easy to do, and it's a long way from being a complete Linux desktop, but it's a start. If you want to run the Ubuntu Linux desktop in Windows 10 for work, I recommend you do it via a virtual machine (VM) program such as Oracle's VirtualBox. But, if you just want to have fun and sharpen your desktop programming skills, you too can try running Ubuntu on Windows 10 natively.

Gnome On Windows 10

To get started on this project today, you need to be running the beta Windows 10 Fast Ring release. With the public release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, everyone will be able to give it a try.

So how do you do it? After updating Windows 10, follow along with me.

First you must turn on Windows 10's Developer Mode via Settings > Update & security > For developers. Next, search for 'Windows Features' and choose 'Turn Windows features on or off' and enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta).

After that, to install Bash, you must open the Windows Command Prompt and type 'bash.' You'll be asked to accept the terms of service and download Ubuntu. The typical Ubuntu download is a bit less than one gigabyte. So, if you have a slow internet connection, be ready to wait. Once installed, you'll be running a userspace version of Ubuntu 14.04 on top of WSL.

Technically, you're not running Linux. It may look like Linux and squeak like Tux, the Linux penguin; but it's not Linux. That's because the Ubuntu userspace is running not on a Linux kernel, but WSL. WSL provides the API hooks to look like Linux to Ubuntu and Linux applications, but it's not the same thing. This will become important as we go along.

Once you have Ubuntu installed, you'll need to update it. You do that from the Bash shell by running the following commands:

1. apt-get update

2. apt-get upgrade

Now, switch back to Windows 10 and install a Windows compatible Xserver. This is what Ubuntu uses to display a graphical interface. The best of these for our purposes are vcxsrv or Xming.

Next, you have to tell Ubuntu about the Xserver so it can use it. To do this you can enter the following command at the shell:

DISPLAY=:0.0

Now, any graphical Linux program will display on Windows 10. Better still, if you're going to keep working with graphical Linux software on WSL, have WSL automatically ready itself for graphical programs by placing the command in Bash's configuration file: '.bashrc'. An easy way to do this is to use the echo command to write it with the following shell command.

echo 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' >> ~/.bashrc

After this, you can run graphical Linux programs, such as Firefox, or desktops.. but they won't run well or for long. That's because WSL doesn't include socket support. Sockets are what Unix and Linux use to communicate between services. On the Linux desktop, the default way to implement sockets is the D-Bus messaging system. Without D-Bus, many Linux desktop graphical programs don't work that well, if, at all.

WSL does, however, support the TCP networking protocol and a Reddit user named ShaRose has found a way to make D-Bus use tcp in place of sockets. Perfect? No. But it works.

To enable this, run the following command:

sudo sed -i 's/<listen>.*</listen>/<listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0</listen>/' /etc/dbus-1/session.conf

This used the sed stream editor to change D-Bus's configuration file so that from here on out it will use tcp instead of sockets. The end result? Applications that need D-Bus will now run on WSL.

In the next step, it's time to install the graphical desktop programs. You do this by running these programs from Bash:

Install Gnome Ubuntu Windows 10

  • apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
  • apt-get install unity
  • apt-get install compiz-core
  • apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

The first command installs the basic Ubuntu desktop programs. This will include end-user programs such as LibreOffice, The next instruction installs the Unity desktop. The final two commands install, Compiz, an OpenGL graphics composting manager and its front-end ccsm. Your next step will be to use ccsm to set up the desktop's settings.

Install Gnome On Windows 10

After all these programs are installed, run ccsm from Bash. From the ccsm interface, you'll need to enable the following Compiz plugins:

General:

  • Commands
  • Composite
  • Copy to texture
  • OpenGL

Desktop:

  • Ubuntu Unity Plugin

Image Loading:

  • PNG

Utility:

  • Compiz Library Toolbox
  • Windows Management
  • Move Window
  • Place Windows
  • Resize Window
  • Scale
  • Snapping Windows

Now, to get this show on the road, close ccsm and bring up the Unity interface by running compiz from Bash.

In a minute or so you should have Unity up and running.

Gnome Terminal Windows 10

Now, don't go into this with false expectations. It's not going to run well. But, on my Windows 10 test system, an ASUS desktop with an third-generation i7 3770 processor, and 8GBs of RAM, it ran well enough that I'm sure someone will eventually find a way to get the Ubuntu desktop to run usefully on WSL.

Now, if you'll excuse me I'm off to see if I can get Quake, the old first-person shooter game, running on WSL. I'm 'this' close to getting it to run.

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