Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea

[Mark Bradbury]

On 30 December 2012 04:27, Thomas Dineen <tdineen at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>
> 1) The on screen menus, located at the top left of the screen, seem very
> dark, to
> the point of being almost unreadable. Keep in mind it is not just the
> monitor, an HP
> w2408h, in that the computer shares the monitor with three others via a four
> way switch.
> The other computers produce a bright screen, each working as expected. So is
> there
> any way to adjust this? Keeping in mind that I spent the evening going
> through the menus.
>
> 2) Periodically parts of the screen, typically the area contained by the
> boundaries of menu
> entries will go all wankers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that has
> lost horizontal
> sync.
>
> 3) Periodically the letters of the menus become a garbled to the point of
> being unreadable!
>
> 4) Gnome 3 crashes about once an hour under light loading.
>
> Thank You For Your Time.
> Thomas Dineen
>

yum install cinnamon && yum remove gnome-shell fixed it for me.