F16 clean install issues.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 29 Dec 2011 at 15:27, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

From:           	"Michael D. Setzer II" 
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
To:             	users at lists.fedoraproject.org
Date sent:      	Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:27:12 +1000
Subject:        	F16 clean install issues.
Priority:       	normal

> Have been testing an upgrade with F16 on one of my classroom 
> machines, and ran into some issues. Missing 
> maximize/minimize/close buttons on windows. Cleaned out a 
> number of (.*) directories in a guest account then when I started the
> vncserver it gave the gnome3 message screen and worked, but having
> some other issues so decided to do a full rebuild on another machine.
> 
> Strangely, for the most part the gnome3 seems to work with the 
> clean install, but the top bar is totally unreadable, and while the
> icons and text seem to show up fine in the main window, the text on
> the right is sometimes unreadable.
> 
> ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/F16Screenshot.png
> 
> These 20+ classroom machines have very old nvidia Geoforce 
> 5200 cards with only 128M of Ram.
> 
> Haven't tried the vnc access on the clean install yet, but have 
> other machines that it seems to work fine on with a clean install, but
> they have higher end video cards.

A couple of updates after following a lot of web links.

The vnc connection works fine using a pull down menus instead 
of the fancier gnome3. 

The local login using the gnome3 and the top bar is unreadable as 
shown in the earlier image, BUT  I found that I could get it to 
become readable by using gnome-tweak-tool and changing the 
text scaling factor to 1.5 or above. Thought that was a fix, but after 
logining out and back in, it is again unreadable but running 
gnome-tweak-tool shows it is still set to 1.5, but changing it again 
will make it work, so something is resetting this. So, I hoping there 
is another tool that might be able to reset the setting and have it 
handle logouts.

That still leaves the sign in screen with the top bar as unreadable 
and the fedora icon is also not displayed correctly. 


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