GNOME Shell 3.6 RC Has Been Released | Linux Today

GNOME Shell 3.6 RC Has Been Released

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Marius Nestor
Sep 20, 2012

GNOME 3.6 Release Candidate comes with many changes, among which we can mention that zoom animation was added to login, the session mode can now be changed at runtime, chat notification can be forced to stay open, messageTray updates, long-press support has been removed, lock screen animation, fprintd autostart, devices & places search provider was removed, the shell can now run without the screenshield, better login dialog transition, shell keybindings are now exposed in System Settings, as well as lots of translation updates.

MN

Marius Nestor

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