On 5/21/2012 3:21 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 06:34:45PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
What with one thing and another, my GNOME 3 will only run in
fallback mode (GNOME Classic), and I have been looking at
alternatives. There are things to like about Xfce, LXDE, MATE, and
others, but I have not heard of anyone trying Cinnamon.
As far as I understand, Cinnamon requires the same hardware acceleration
as gnome-shell, so you will probably have as much trouble running it.
On 5/20/2012 6:05 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2012 18:34:45 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
What with one thing and another, my GNOME 3 will only run in fallback
mode (GNOME Classic), and I have been looking at alternatives.
And you are not interested in getting gnome-shell to work?
The problem is not with the video drivers, it's with GNOME itself.
Currently, on my machine, GNOME 3 is in an inconsistent state, and I am
waiting for ver. 3.4 to stabilize (migrate down to Wheezy) before I
attempt to fix it.
The Ubuntu bunch can run Cinnamon, but AFAIK, no one has packaged it
for Debian.
It's a work-in-progress. You can track progress here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657395
Thanks for your help. I think I will exercise patience and wait for
Debian to add it into it's own repositories before I install it on hardware.
I have now installed both Mint and Mint Debian Edition in VMs and I have
discovered that Mint (Ubuntu) with Cinnamon does not interact well with
Virtualbox. My next thing to try is to use VMWare instead of Virtualbox.
Thanks again!
Mark
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