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Mutter, the window and compositing manager of desktops has brought out its most recent release 3.3.3 . This is hand in hand with the Gnome Shell 3.3.3 release since Mutter predominantly caters to larger systems like Gnome. Both of the releases have major improvements and bugfixes to their name. Find out about the new releases..

The power of Gnome Shell lies in its extensionability. It is this power that transforms the barely unusable vanilla Gnome Shell desktop environement into a powerful and extremely  usable and productive desktop environment. Gnome shell has a number of useful installations to enhance the user experience.  To learn how to install and enable them using the Gnome Tweak tool check out  our post on Installing and using Gnome Shell.  In this post we will look at some must have Gnome shell extensions

This is a sequel to Gnome 3 and Shell - A Complete User Guide [ Part 1] and Gnome 3 and Shell - A Complete User Guide [ Part 2]. Gnome Shell is like the Dead Man's Chest in the movie, Pirates of the Carribean, its ugly and hidden in a distant land, but once you find it and unlock it, you will have the complete control over a invincible ship. The key to make Gnome Shell "invincible" is the Shell extensions.

If the mere mention of Gnome shell brings terrible images in our mind. Relax and take a look at our tutorials on installing and using Gnome shell in Ubuntu. After you do that take a look at a few gorgeous gnome shell themes that is bound to leave you asking for more.

This is a sequel to Gnome 3 and Shell - A Complete User Guide [ Part 1] which talked about the Installation. The Gnome Shell by default is a 'unholy mess'. Using it directly is like living in a unfurnished house. The "Gnome Tweak Tool" helps to put all the furniture and helps us elevate the 'unholy mess' to a 'holy mess' with which we can live.

Gnome 3 with Gnome Shell is not something that everyone would want to try, after being called as "unholy mess" by Linus Torvalds himself [1]. It has a number of shortcomings for a Gnome 2 user; you don't even get a desktop to put your shortcuts or files :'( . Then why would someone still want to install Gnome 3 and try it? Because It can be customized to suit your needs and almost solve every shortcoming you cry about (including desktop shortcuts :) ). So let us see what Gnome 3 holds.