Debian Wheezy comes with a default of Gnome 3 as their desktop interface. If you find you don't like Gnome 3, Debian allows you to change your desktop interface in the very beginning of the install under the advanced settings you can change your desktop interface to one you may like better. For purposes of this blog you will be seeing the default desktop interfaces that come with the basic installs. For most new Linux users the desktop interface is what will be the deciding factor. So without further ado lets get into the Gnome 3 desktop interface and personalization.
Go into your system settings, which you can find this by clicking on the username in the top right corner of the desktop.
Click on background to change your image.
Click on the image and it's changed, if you have images uploaded to your computer you can use those images as well.
That was fairly simple right?
Back in the settings menu go ahead and click on Brightness and lock, great now you can change your settings there. Have your screen shut off and when you wake it back up you can choose if you'd like to have the feature of a password needing to be plugged in before you can use the computer. Nice safety feature for those who would like to utilize something like that.
Now go ahead and get into your advanced settings by clicking on Activities in the top left corner, clicking on the applications tab and then clicking on the advanced settings icon.
Here you can change your fonts and themes and anything else you would like...however upon clicking on Shell and Shell Extensions tabs I was immediately confused.
If you have done any research on Linux and the command line you have an understanding that Shell is the term we use when talking about the command line interpreter. So upon seeing this, I asked my quick reference Linux guide (le boyfriend) if he could please refresh my memory on what a Shell is. He confirmed that it is an interpreter. For some reason Gnome decided to make it confusing and called their desktop a shell, insert facepalm here.
I find that personalization on Gnome 3 is limited. I am a personalization person, I like my desktop to look different from everyone else's desktop. Gnome 3 is not doing it for me, and well the fact that they call their desktop a shell and possibly causing massive confusion to the new users of Linux just really turned me off. Luckily for us, Debian allows for users to change the default desktop at the beginning of an install.
Stay tuned for a look at the programs that are available with this distribution of Debian.
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