How do I check my version of GNOME-Shell?
Solution 1:
Just type
gnome-shell --version
into a terminal.
Solution 2:
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. To just show the version:
apt-cache show gnome-shell | grep Version
On Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) I get
Version: 2.31.5-2ubuntu2
Note that this works whether or not the package is installed. You can also look up all packaged versions of gnome-shell on all ubuntu versions on http://packages.ubuntu.com/