Gnome 3.0
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Sadly I think that still stands, it was a design decision simply because the new Gnome Shell is massively different code and structure wise. Maybe though the included compositing effects in the new shell will match or at least come close to what Compiz does?
With Arch at least it will probably hit the testing repos on Wednesday and main stable ones in ~ 1-2 weeks. No idea about other distros but maybe in the next major release
I would guess though most distros will have some community documentations on installing it manually within the next couple of weeks.Just installed this from testing on Arch. I really like it
Excellent good to here
I was going to install it from the testing repo as well, but I was recently retarded and erased my local pacman database = reinstall required 
Have you tried the fallback mode? That's supposed to be closer to gnome 2 I think.
Useful 'cheat sheet' for gnome-shell: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
And some early shell mods: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/gnome-shell-extensions-additional.html
The gnome-tweak-tool is great for enabling desktop icons and other little bits
I switched to it tonight, it seems ok but getting rid of desktop icons seems to me like going backwards rather than going forwards. Also little things like not being able to enable browser mode in nautilus so you can browse to a path manually, you can do it with ctrl+l but I can't work out how to make it persistent anymore
Also no option to shutdown? you're forced to press the Alt key on the menu to get a shutdown option. Honestly I don't know why the Gnome devs are so against offering these things as configurable options!
The activity thing in the top left of the screen is nice, but im not sure it works too well on dual screens. Certainly takes some getting used to, naturally we no longer have an option for a task list on the main bar
Otherwise I like it
And some early shell mods: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/gnome-shell-extensions-additional.html
The gnome-tweak-tool is great for enabling desktop icons and other little bits
I switched to it tonight, it seems ok but getting rid of desktop icons seems to me like going backwards rather than going forwards. Also little things like not being able to enable browser mode in nautilus so you can browse to a path manually, you can do it with ctrl+l but I can't work out how to make it persistent anymore
Also no option to shutdown? you're forced to press the Alt key on the menu to get a shutdown option. Honestly I don't know why the Gnome devs are so against offering these things as configurable options!
The activity thing in the top left of the screen is nice, but im not sure it works too well on dual screens. Certainly takes some getting used to, naturally we no longer have an option for a task list on the main bar
Otherwise I like it
If anyone is using 2 screens and has had issues with the dock extension i've made some simple changes to it play better with twinview'ed screens.
- The dock is now positioned on the right of the second screen (-20 pixels), before at least with me it was stuck between the two screens (nvidia twinview).
- Clicking on a dock icon multiple times will open one process per click on the current workspace rather than locking you to one instance.
Extensions to the shell are really easy as it's all JavaScript, so I think within a few months things will improve a lot
Now looks like:
Once the occasional rendering bugs are fixed I think it will be ok I still don't like the huge graphical list of apps under the activities menu though
My next job is to mod it so you can have a dual screen wallpaper, of course they didn't think that is a relevant feature in 2011...
EDIT: turns out multi-monitor wallpapers are already supported, and just need to to be done as a 'spanned' image
- The dock is now positioned on the right of the second screen (-20 pixels), before at least with me it was stuck between the two screens (nvidia twinview).
- Clicking on a dock icon multiple times will open one process per click on the current workspace rather than locking you to one instance.
Extensions to the shell are really easy as it's all JavaScript, so I think within a few months things will improve a lot
Now looks like:
Once the occasional rendering bugs are fixed I think it will be ok
I still don't like the huge graphical list of apps under the activities menu though My next job is to mod it so you can have a dual screen wallpaper, of course they didn't think that is a relevant feature in 2011...
EDIT: turns out multi-monitor wallpapers are already supported, and just need to to be done as a 'spanned' image
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Hi,
Any of you boys got this working in dual or triple screen ?
I'm going round in circles - Something's not right with my setup
Im using duals with nvidia twinview without issues and better than gnome 2
What issues are you having?Has anybody tried to load Gnome 3 Fedora into VM VirtualBox. The reason why I ask,every time I try I get this error message, yet there is nothing wrong with my video.
I got the same error on my Laptop (not VM) which had a perfectly adequate GPU, haven't yet found a solution
It's an Intel GMA X4500HD, I haven't spent much time looking into it though so maybe the Intel drivers just suck ***, but I think it should meet the min requirements
Surprised the noveau drivers aren't working for you, hopefully things will improve over the next few months though.