On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 14:19 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 16/03/11 12:30, James Laska wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 12:09 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > >> I've just installed F15 alpha in a virtualbox machine and at the first boot I > >> get a gnome 3 error explaining that it can't be fully initialised because 3D is > >> not supported. I don't know if this is the cause to my problem, which is: > > > > GNOME3 is not expected to work in virtualized environments where > > hardware accelerated graphics are not available. > > A side question, does this mean that gnome3 requires hardware accelerated graphics? Yes. From http://gnome3.org/faq.html ... The GNOME 3 desktop does require hardware accelerated graphics in order to provide a cutting-edge experience however, and the complete GNOME 3 experience will only be available on computers capable of this. Do not worry though: GNOME 3 will come complete with a fallback interface which will provide an excellent experience in the absence of hardware acceleration, and which incorporates many of the improvements that can be found in GNOME 3. > >> I add a launcher (mc) to the panel and when I click on it nothing happens. I > >> can't even shut the system down, I have to power off. Now after booting again > >> the system behaves normally, I can launch mc without problems. But when I add > >> another launcher to the panel same thing happens, I have to power off and reboot > >> to activate the panel launchers. Is this a known problem? > > > > First, make sure your system is fully updated. Good news, it sounds > > like you have a fairly consistent reproducer. Can you start a terminal > > and attempt to run mc (or any newly added launcher)? Do any errors > > present in $HOME/.xsession-errors when you experience the problem? > > It is fully updated and there are lots of messages in .xsession-errors but I > don't understand them :-( Heh ... neither do most people (myself included). You are basically looking for anything near the bottom that might look *somewhat* related to icons or .desktop files. Thanks, James
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