Which gnome version i have

Emanuel Berg Emanuel Berg 6, 5 5 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 62 62 bronze badges. This reports 3. And my distro is fully up to date. Further exploring shows that the gnome-system-monitor version not the gnome version is 3.

Further exploration in my package manager, shows that I have, even with an up-to-date system, a mixture of 3. SuperMagic: Those numbers are fairly consistent, although it is irritating not to be able to get a definite answer. Maybe the morale of all of this is that the version isn't holy; it is just a number.

Michael Mrozek 84k 31 31 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Brad Brad 27 1 1 bronze badge. As I said in my post, gnome-shell is just a gnome component so this method is unreliable. Use what the gnome devs use. I want to call your attention to another answer which says "no, you shouldn't use commands like gnome-session --version, gnome-shell --version, gdm --version etc.

I see what you mean, my xml; 3. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Explaining the semiconductor shortage, and how it might end. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete?

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It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. There's got to be some simple way I'm missing, but for the life of me I can't find it. The gnome-shell man page doesn't show --version as an option. Assuming you have installed it from the ubuntu repositories then you can look up the version in the repository.

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