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I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on VirtualBox with the following specs:

  • 1024 MB RAM
  • 128 VGA
  • 16 HDD

Then I tried to install GNOME Shell as in this OMG! Ubuntu post.

But I didn't get the same result. The shell seemed to be so basic; I didn't get hot corners, for example.

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    Have you ticked "3D acceleration" on the virtual machine settings? Please dropbox (or something similar) a screenshot of your issue.
    – fossfreedom
    Dec 12, 2011 at 10:48
  • this is what i got : bit.ly/sxlj1e Dec 12, 2011 at 12:09

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Your screenshot indicates that Gnome-Shell refused to load and has dropped back to the default fallback mode called Gnome-Classic.

Three specific virtualbox recommendations:

  • I would recommend that you define your VirtualBox guest settings as per this picture:

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  • Install VirtualBox guest additions

  • I would recommend you use the very latest VirtualBox version - v4.1 at the time of writing this.

Note - it is important to check that your Host graphics card is 3D Graphics capable - This is described in this linked VirtualBox chapter

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Your screenshot shows Gnome Panel, which is the shell we've used in earlier versions of Ubuntu and that has been Gnomes primary shells for more than a decade. Gnome Shell is very dependent on hardware and good drivers. They're working on a version that is less hardware dependent. It might be easier to recognize by these images (it's the same desktop):

Showing a customized gnome-panel desktop.

One thing to notice is that the way you add applets and things like that has changed. You now hold super+alt and right click to show the menu in the first screenshot. You use alt+middleclick to move applets around.

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