Before You Use Gnome Shell

Gnome Shell is the core interface of the desktop environment GNOME starting from version 3, released on April 6, 2011. It provides basic functionality such as the selection of windows and launching applications. He replaces GNOME Panel and other software components of the GNOME 2 and offers a user experience that stops from a desktop model used in previous versions of GNOME.

Shell GNOME using Mutter, a compositing window manager based on the Metacity window manager, and Clutter toolkit to provide visual effects and hardware acceleration. According to Shell's manager Owen Taylor GNOME, it is regulated as Mutter plugins are mostly written in Javascript.


Before you install or use the shell as the default gnome desktop, there are some considerations you should think. Especially for users who prioritize performance and memory savings, especially if your hardware is still low. Why should consider? gnome shell wear it because the memory is greater than ever. When first live you can check how much memory is used, such as screenshots I took of the following, when the computer first time live.


The longer the greater the need for memory, I have swollen to 80 MIB used by the gnome shell, so please think before you need before you decide to use gnome shell
and here there is a system in place and require considerable memory space as well.