# Gnome 3 situation

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/gnome-3-situation/2581>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** feature-request, ondemand2, question, doc-request\
**Created:** [March 31, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/gnome-3-situation/2581 "2023-03-31T22:49:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/gnome-3-situation/2581/1 "2023-03-31T22:49:41Z")

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The documentation at [1. Software Requirements — Open OnDemand 3.0.3 documentation](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/enable-desktops/software-requirements.html) says that one has to install

> Gnome Desktop 2 (currently we do not support Gnome 3)

Yet the link which is supposed to point to Gnome 2 points to Gnome 3. AFAIK Gnome 2 is long dead and unsupported (even though Mate started as a fork of it, but that is a different story). So at least the link should be removed and some sentence should be added “for people running really old OSes”.

I am running RH8 and in my situation it’s an extreme pain to have to install Mate or XFCE (long story). Is running Gnome 3 close to impossible? Any plan to have it supported for the foreseeable future? Any chance to run a GUI apps (perhaps in full screen only) via OnDemand VNC without a desktop manager?

Thanks!