%general-entities; ]> gnome-shell The GNOME Shell is the core user interface of the GNOME Desktop environment. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &gnome-shell-md5sum; Download size: &gnome-shell-size; Estimated disk space required: &gnome-shell-buildsize; Estimated build time: &gnome-shell-time; GNOME Shell Dependencies Required , , , , , , , , and Recommended , , , , , and Optional and bash-completion Required Runtime Dependencies , , , , , , , , and , and Recommended Runtime Dependency Install GNOME Shell by running the following commands: mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dsystemd=false \ -Dtests=false \ .. && ninja mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dtests=false \ .. && ninja To test the results, you need to remove the -Dtests=false switch, and to have compiled and installed with tests also. To run the tests, issue: ninja test. You must be running an X session to run the tests. Some will fail if is not installed. Several more tests may fail in the Sysv environment. One test named CSS styling support is known to fail with some multi-monitor configurations. Now, as the root user: ninja install -Dsystemd=false: Prevents installing systemd files, which are not needed in this version of BLFS. -Dtests=false: Remove this switch if you want to build the tests. But then meson will fail if tests are not installed. -Dextensions_tool=false: This switch allows building this package without installed. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories gnome-extensions, gnome-extensions-app, gnome-shell, gnome-shell-extension-prefs, gnome-shell-extension-tool, and gnome-shell-test-tool None /usr/lib/gnome-shell, /usr/share/gnome-shell, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{shell,st} (optional), and /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/ Short Descriptions gnome-shell provides the core user interface functions for the GNOME Desktop gnome-shell