[SOLVED] Where's Gnome 3??

[JamesNZ]

Ok, so here's the story:
I got F15 burned on a USB

And here's the problem:
I can't see Gnome 3 I looked at the 'About' for the one of the panels and it said "Gnome 2.26".

In short,

Originally Posted by JamesNZ

Ok, so here's the story:
I got F15 burned on a USB

And here's the problem:
I can't see Gnome 3 I looked at the 'About' for the one of the panels and it said "Gnome 2.26".

In short,

im more than you bee

[fpmurphy]

What does /usr/bin/gnome-shell --version say?

Have you hardware accelerated graphics?

[JamesNZ]

Originally Posted by detox

im more than you bee

Who?? Me??

Originally Posted by fpmurphy

What does /usr/bin/gnome-shell --version say?

Have you hardware accelerated graphics?

Haven't the slightest idea to either of those but I will check, first boot: top panel froze and I had to force reboot. Last boot: Gnome didn't even load Oddly enough though, the theme is sick. It reminds me of Win95 And there's no compiz either. How do you check for hardware acceleration?

[AdamW]

are you sure what you have is actually Fedora 15? What exactly did you download, and from where?

[John the train]

I've just checked on a F15 Alpha live CD which I d/l'd some days ago, and Gnome shows as 2.91.6, which I believe is pretty well standard practice with testing/development versions?

[kurtdriver]

Originally Posted by JamesNZ

Who?? Me??

James, Bee is a former member of the forum who was known for his prolific use of smileys. He is the author of a program called beesu.

[JamesNZ]

Originally Posted by AdamW

are you sure what you have is actually Fedora 15? What exactly did you download, and from where?

Yes, it's legit. I got from the Fedora website.

Originally Posted by John the train

I've just checked on a F15 Alpha live CD which I d/l'd some days ago, and Gnome shows as 2.91.6, which I believe is pretty well standard practice with testing/development versions?

Hmm, maybe I didn't read it properly. I sure it's still Gnome2, there's no indication of any difference except for a Win95-style theme

Originally Posted by kurtdriver

James, Bee is a former member of the forum who was known for his prolific use of smileys. He is the author of a program called beesu.

I know(from experience)

[ah7013]

Originally Posted by JamesNZ

Hmm, maybe I didn't read it properly. I sure it's still Gnome2, there's no indication of any difference except for a Win95-style theme

Is it possible that you are using the fallback in F15 instead of gnome shell?

[DBelton]

he probably is getting the fallback version of Gnome from his description of it.

And even though it's called gnome 3, the actual version number is 2 something. The gnome shell probably has a higher version number than the fallback version, too.

I had problems getting the gnome 3 shell when I would boot form a livecd, myself. On 5 different machines, all different hardware from an intel 965 graphics on up to an nvidia gtx 210... Core 2 duo 2.8ghz up to an i7 3.0 ghz. 2gb ram up to 12 gb ram. none of them would load the gnome-shell from the livecd. But as soon as I did a full install, then the gnome shell came up. (the machine I did the full install on was actually one with a lower end video card in it (nvidia geforce 7300gt))

[JamesNZ]

You're right ah7013 and DBelton, I must have been using the fallback. I re-burnt the image today and booted up to Gnome3! Thanks everyone for your help, I appreciate it BTW does anyone know where the system settings are?

[kurtdriver]

James, right click on your username in the upper right hand corner.