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Re: Upgrade from 6.0.7 to 7.0 issues



Kailash wrote:
> Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> > I upgraded the other day, and noticed some differences between my
> > desktop appearance (Gnome) and what is described in the Help. According
> > to Help, there should be some Activities menu or something like that in
> > the upper left corner, but only I see is Applications and Places in that
> > screen area. Any idea?
> 
> Looks like you're booting into Gnome Classic. Logout and see if you
> have other Gnome desktops available.

The GNOME 3 in Debian 7 IIRC requires hardware acceleration.  If the
system doesn't have compatible graphics then even though it ran GNOME
2 okay GNOME 3 will run in "fallback mode".  One of the big problems
of upgrading is that GNOME 2 is lost.

This has been discussed much on this list.  See the archives.

Many people upgrading from GNOME 2 escape from GNOME 3 by installing
XFCE or LXDE in order to get a traditional desktop.  You might try
XFCE and see if it meets your needs.

Bob

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