You need to use the gnome-panel or gnome-about command from the shell prompt to find out the GNOME desktop version. The GNOME panel displays an area on your screen, which acts as a repository for the main menu, application launchers, and applets. Open terminal application and type the following command: [donotprint]
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Sample output:
GNOME gnome-panel 2.24.1
Or type the following on modern gnome desktop systems:
$ gnome-about --gnome-version
Sample outputs:
Version: 2.30.2 Distributor: Debian Build Date: Friday 12 November 2010
Gnome 3.x user need to use the following command:
$ gnome-session --version
View the GNOME Desktop Version Using GUI Dialog Box
Click on System > About Gnome
Sample outputs:
Fig.01: Find Out The GNOME Version
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I think the trick is to use gnome-about like this.
$ gnome-about –gnome-version
Version: 2.26.0
Distributor: Ubuntu
Build Date: 03/19/2009
Just install Ubuntu 11.10 with the hope Gnome 3 was installed.
Guess what, it isn’t…
$ gnome-about –gnome-version
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 yesterday and Gnome 3 was installed by default. If you want to login into Gnome 3 instead of Unity, you can choose the option “GNOME” in the login screen.
on GNOME 3.2 open the process-monitor application and go to the “System” tab. There you should find the kernel, ubuntu and gnome version.
i ment the app “gnome-system-monitor” not process-monitor.
The correct way to do this is:
gnome-about –gnome-version
(note there are two hyphens before gnome-version)
Unfortunately that no longer works for the latest versions of Ubuntu. Both
and
are no longer available since the switch to Unity/GNOME 3. Instead you can use
, which is also backwards compatible with older versions of GNOME:
The real correct way to check this regardless of what version of gnome your running is this:
That is, if you’re using RPM :)
Similarly if you’re using apt-get, you can use apt-cache to find the version:
apt-cache show gnome-shell
please remove this comment and put in my next one, i accidentally wrote gnome-search-tool here instead of gnome-panel
Thanks!
gnome-shell --version