gnome-shell: gnome-shell (GNOME Shell) gnome-shell: gnome-shell: GNOME Shell acts as a compositing manager for the desktop, and gnome-shell: displays both application windows and other objects in a Clutter gnome-shell: scene graph. The GNOME Shell is intended to replace functions gnome-shell: handled by the GNOME Panel and by the window manager in previous gnome-shell: versions of GNOME. gnome-shell: gnome-shell: gnome-shell: gnome-shell: