The Manjaro 18.0 Illria release consists of Plasma, Xfce & GNOME editions. In previous posts, we've explored the Xfce and KDE editions. Now, it's time to explore the GNOME edition. The Illyria release brings GNOME 3.30 with a decent amount of customizations. This release ships a few GNOME shell plugins to provide improved productivity.
Manjaro 18.0 Illyria - The GNOME Desktop - First impression |
Distribution Name | Manjaro GNOME Edition |
Version | 18.0 |
Release date | 28th Ocrober 2018 |
Base | Arch |
Desktop Environment | GNOME |
Home page | https://manjaro.org/ |
Manjaro Hello is a Gtk based Welcome App. It provides links to easily launch the installer and to various resources |
Manjaro Illyria GNOME edition ships a modern application menu which lists applications in different categories. |
The GNOME shell default full screen menu also co-exists with the application menu |
Nautilus File Manager - Simple & functional |
GNOME Terminal |
GNOME shell native multitasking overview |
A demo of GUI based multitasking |
Just like other GNOME distributions, Manjaro GNOME editions brings firefox as default browser, instead of GNOME's own epiphany |
GNOME Videos. It is capable to play popular video formats without installing any additional plugins. |
Lollypop Music Player |
gThumb Image Viewer |
LibreOffice Writer |
Microsoft Office Powerpoint online is running as a standalone application in Manjaro GNOME Edition |
GNOME Calendar |
GNOME Clock |
Pamac is an advanced package manager |
Application description description in Pamac |
System update option in Pamac |
GNOME Control Center |
Background selection |
Manjaro Settings Manager (MSM) |
Installing & switching different kernel versions using MSM |
Resource usage on idle state. As per the report, Manjaro GNOME edition consumes around 1 GB of RAM on idle state |
Resource usage on idle state. With the htop, resource usage is significantly lower. It reports 884 MB of RAM on idle. |
GNOME Tweak Tool |
Manjaro GNOME resetting tool for restoring the default configuration |
GNOME Notification & calendar widget |
System Menu |
Shutdown confirmation |
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