Gnome 3

[Mick Farmer]

Dear GLLUGers,

Today I upgraded Fedora from 14 to 16. I assume that Gnome 3 is my new
window manager.

However, when I try to change anything I don't have an "Activities" on
the left of my top menu, just "Applications" and "Places".

Am I really running Gnome 3?

If so, how do I access my activities?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Mick

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[Stuart Sears]

Post by Mick Farmer
Dear GLLUGers,
Today I upgraded Fedora from 14 to 16. I assume that Gnome 3 is my new
window manager.
However, when I try to change anything I don't have an "Activities" on
the left of my top menu, just "Applications" and "Places".

It's possible you are running in fallback mode, which is used when the
graphics HW in your system is not 'powerful' enough for the full-on
GNOME Shell experience. What's the spec of the machine you're running
on?

Does your screen look like the screenshots of fallback mode on this
site?

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3-fallback.html

Post by Mick Farmer
Am I really running Gnome 3?

Yes, probably. If you're on Fedora 16, pretty much definitely as there
is no GNOME2 available.

Post by Mick Farmer
If so, how do I access my activities?

Define 'activities' in this sense? the fancy overlays (probably**)
won't work in fallback mode, but you should be able to run apps from the
'Applications' menu as before.



Stuart

** I have no idea, I haven't actually used fallback mode.

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[Richard W.M. Jones]

Post by Mick Farmer
Today I upgraded Fedora from 14 to 16. I assume that Gnome 3 is my new
window manager.
However, when I try to change anything I don't have an "Activities" on
the left of my top menu, just "Applications" and "Places".
Am I really running Gnome 3?

Yes, in fallback mode.

You might want to try XFCE:

# yum install @XFCE

then log out and at the login prompt select "XFCE 4" as your
session manager.

Rich.