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

[David]

On 5/29/2011 4:05 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> 
>> Did you install the Guest Additions and run the script to compile the
>> Vbox drivers?
> 
> I could have sworn that I had, but I went through this process again
> anyway, and sure enough, the install of guest additions behaved very
> differently this time. Last time, I had not yet run the guest on a
> system that actually let me check the "3D acceleration" button (the
> other desktop uses nouveau instead of nvidia), so obviously this causes
> the guest additions installer to behave very differently. After going
> through this, it now works (I see the "Activities" menu instead of
> "Applications" and "Places", so I'm not in fallback mode any more), and
> I will have a chance to see what all the fuss is about. After all I've
> read about GNOME 3, I don't want to assume "it sucks" without trying it
> first, but I have certainly heard enough to make me want to try it in a
> VM before it becomes my default desktop. If I end up deciding to switch
> to KDE, then I will probably do that before upgrading my main desktop to
> F15.


Vbox compiles its own drivers. One of them is a special video driver and
*that one* is the one that you use. It is used automatically after
compiling by Vbox. Each time that F 15 kernel updates you will have to
run the script to build new drivers for that kernel and reboot to use
that kernel and new drivers. Currently DKMS is broken so you will have
to do that by hand. I do not know of, might be one, a akmod for this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702483

The 3D feature is still work in progress and only somewhat runs in a
Windows guest. 3D is not needed for the 3D Gnome 3 in Fedora 15.

OT The Xorg that is now in Rawhide *does not* work with the Vbox video
driver.


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  David