Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Desktop Migration and Administration Guide A guide to the GNOME 3 Desktop migration planning and administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Petr Kovář Jana Heves Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Desktop Migration and Administration Guide A guide to the GNOME 3 Desktop migration planning and administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Petr Kovář Red Hat Customer Content Services [email protected] Jana Heves Red Hat Customer Content Services [email protected] Legal Notice Copyright © 2015 Red Hat, Inc. This document is licensed by Red Hat under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you distribute this document, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat, Inc. and provide a link to the original. If the document is modified, all Red Hat trademarks must be removed. Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Shadowman logo, JBoss, MetaMatrix, Fedora, the Infinity Logo, and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux ® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. Java ® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. XFS ® is a trademark of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. MySQL ® is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States, the European Union and other countries. Node.js ® is an official trademark of Joyent. Red Hat Software Collections is not formally related to or endorsed by the official Joyent Node.js open source or commercial project. The OpenStack ® Word Mark and OpenStack Logo are either registered trademarks/service marks or trademarks/service marks of the OpenStack Foundation, in the United States and other countries and are used with the OpenStack Foundation's permission. We are not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation, or the OpenStack community. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Abstract The Desktop Migration and Administration Guide documents the GNOME 3 Desktop migration planning, deployment, configuration, and administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. It is oriented towards system administrators with a basic understanding of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. T able of Cont ent s Table of Contents .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 1. .. I.n .t .r o. .d .u .c .i n. .g . t. h. e. .G . N. .O . M. .E . 3. .D . e. s. k.t .o .p . 3. ⁠1.1. What Is GNOME 3? 3 ⁠1.2. What Is GNOME Shell? 4 ⁠1.3. What Is GNOME Classic? 5 .P .a .r t. .I .. M. .i g. r. a. t.i o. .n . P. l.a .n . n. i.n .g . 9. .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 2. .. l.o .g . i.n .d . 1. 0. ⁠Getting Mo re Info rmatio n 11 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 3. .. G. .S .e .t .t i.n . g. s. .a .n .d . .d .c .o .n . f. 1. 2. ⁠Getting Mo re Info rmatio n 12 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 4. .. P. o. .l i.c .y .K .i t. 1. 3. ⁠4.1. Po licy Co nfig uratio n 13 ⁠4.2. Default Po licy 13 ⁠4.3. Checking Permissio ns fro m Scrip ts 14 ⁠4.4. Extend ing p o lkit Co nfig uratio n 14 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 5. .. G. .D .M . 1. 5. ⁠Getting Mo re Info rmatio n 15 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 6. .. G. .N . O. .M . E. .S .h . e. l.l .E .x .t .e .n .s .i o. n. .s . 1. 6. ⁠6 .1. Rep lacement fo r the Clo ck Ap p let 16 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 7. .. g. n. .o .m . e. -. s. e. s. s. i.o .n . 1. 7. ⁠Getting Mo re Info rmatio n 17 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 8. .. I.n .t .e .r n. .a .t i.o . n. a. l.i z. a. t. i.o .n . 1. 8. ⁠8 .1. Inp ut Metho d s 18 ⁠8 .2. Chang ed File Lo catio ns 18 .P .a .r t. .I I.. .C .o . n. f.i g. .u .r a. t. i.o .n . .a .n .d . A. .d .m . i.n .i s. t. r.a .t .i o. n. 1. 9. .C .h .a .p . t.e .r . 9. .. C. o. .n .f i.g . u. r.i n. .g . D. .e .s .k t. o. p. w. i.t .h . G. .S . e. t.t .i n. g. .s . a. n. d. .d . c. o. n. f. 2. 0. ⁠9 .1. Termino lo g y Exp lained :.