Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

[Greg Woods]

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 20:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> GNOME 3 runs fine on a VM including the fallback mode.  GNOME Shell also
> runs on a VM if you look at the latest version of VirtualBox.  

I have been unable to get this to work. I am using Vbox 4.0.8 (latest
version) and the Nvidia proprietary drivers. I have checked "enable 3D
acceleration" in the Vbox settings for this VM. But Gnome 3 still starts
in fallback mode. What else is needed to make this work?

--Greg