Re: Gnome and Ubuntu 12.04 beta

On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 22:19 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
I hope someone can help me overcome a mental block. I installed Ubuntu
12.04 beta 2 in a VM so that I can evaluate the user interface of Gnome
3.4. Synaptic shows that it is installed on my system, but I've no idea
how to invoke it. The only options I'm offered at login are Ubuntu
(Unity) and Ubuntu 2D, presumably also Unity 2D.

Anyone?

You need to install gnome shell (or cinnamon) if you want a non-unity
gnome 3.x desktop.


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Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:55:58 -0700
Epicurus up 20:04, 1 user, load average: 0.74, 0.93, 1.00
Linux 3.2.0-23-generic
Ubuntu precise (development branch), gnome-session 3.2.1, unity 5.10.0



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