HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 16

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HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 16

Post by Technologov »

F16 is now out !

But it has one nasty bug -- SELinux. It results in GNOME always running in fall-back mode, even with 3D acceleration enabled and GA installed.

You need to disable SELinux. Either via "/etc/selinux/config" permanently, or for single boot via:

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# setenforce 0
then restart GNOME3:

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gnome-shell –replace &
And Voilla ! It works !

Host: Windows 7 x64, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 + VBox 4.1.6.
Guest: Fedora 16 x64 + GA 4.1.6.

Related article(s):
https://aspratyush.wordpress.com/tag/fe ... irtualbox/

How-to install GA on Fedora 15/16:
http://www.sysprobs.com/install-fedora- ... -fedora-15

-Technologov
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Re: HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 1

Post by Malechai »

i'm not sure if my problem is related to this or not? I can't seem to install the guest additions in F16 at all. When attempting to launch the installer, the terminal window flashes open and then closes - nothing happens.

Any thoughts?

/edit .. i've installed all the prereq packages as per the FAQ guide on this board here for Fedora:
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15679
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Re: HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 1

Post by Perryg »

You can open a terminal and install the guest additions as SU manually.
Install instructions are located in chapter 4.2 Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions in your VirtualBox users manual.
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Post by Malechai »

interesting enough the issue was the fact that I had the CDROM on the SATA controller. I added an IDE controller, put the CDROM on that and now the additions are installing just fine.
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Re: HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 1

Post by Dragonfire00 »

Technologov wrote:F16 is now out !

But it has one nasty bug -- SELinux. It results in GNOME always running in fall-back mode, even with 3D acceleration enabled and GA installed.

You need to disable SELinux. Either via "/etc/selinux/config" permanently
Registered to say thanks and it worked for me. Had to manually install the guest additions, used this:

http://www.sysprobs.com/install-fedora- ... -fedora-15
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Re: HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 1

Post by mcasperson »

You can see a screencast stepping you through the process of enabling the gnome-shell under VirtualBox here.
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Re: HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 1

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gnome-shell –replace &
It tells me that -replace is not a valid option
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Re: HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 1

Post by Twisted Lucidity »

Once you have used "setenforce 0" as root (i.e. su)
You then need to restart gnome-shell as the user. There is a minor typo in the OP and the command should be:

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gnome-shell --replace &
Note the double hyphens.

Remember that on GNU/Linux you can always get documentation on any command from right in the terminal with "man". So to find out how to use "gnome-shell" one would use this command

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man gnome-shell
Then page up/down and "q" to exit. You can use "man man" to find out more about "man" too.

This worked perfectly for me, now I can try out Gnome-shell a bit more before I decide if I want to upgrade to that, Unity or something else.
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Re: HOW-TO enable GNOME-shell 3D desktop effects in Fedora 1

Post by pau »

Hi all.
I installed Fedora 16, VBox guest additions (4.1.18) and everything was just fine.
I decided to enable Gnome shell:

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[user@fedora ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@fedora ~]# restorecon -R -v /opt
...
[root@fedora ~]# gnome-shell --replace &
After reboot I see Gnome shell and try to login as a user:
Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again. Log out.
But when I am doing so (logout) the system hangs - I see background picture, wait cursor and nothing is happening.
I can not login as a root user via Gnome - authentication failure. But when I use runlevel 3 and the same password for root it works - I can login as a root in console mode. What should I do?
Thank you very much in advance.
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