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binaryanomaly

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Registered: 2011-06-19

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[Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

Hi

First time arch linux user I installed gnome so far so good. But I seem to be missing all the nice new eyecandy panels, bars, search, etc.
Any idea why that is and how I can make it appear?

http://gnome3.org/img/search-big.png
--> All not there and instead of activities I have Applications, Places

Thanks
-b

Last edited by binaryanomaly (2011-06-19 18:30:03)

Durden

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

Did you 'pacman -S gnome-extra' ??

Sounds like you are running in fallback mode. What video card do you and have you set that up correctly?

binaryanomaly

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Registered: 2011-06-19

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

I installed the extras now as well, no change even after reboot.

ATI Technologies Inc Cayman PRO [AMD Radeon 6900 Series]
--> Looks ok as far I can tell, how can i verify?

Edit: using this driver xf86-video-ati not the catalyst one

Last edited by binaryanomaly (2011-06-19 16:52:56)

wonder

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

it will be cool if you paste Xorg.0.log

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Durden

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

Sounds like you lack 3d support at the moment. I'm an nVidia guy so I don't know about the ATI stuff much. I'll defer to others on that. Gnome 3 as you see it in the screeshots uses Mutter which is like Compiz in a way, displaying 3d graphics in the environment. Without 3d support you are running in fallback mode. In fact you should have gotten a message when starting X that you were in fallback.

binaryanomaly

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

http://pastebin.com/qkN252Bz

here you go

binaryanomaly

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

Sounds like you lack 3d support at the moment. I'm an nVidia guy so I don't know about the ATI stuff much. I'll defer to others on that. Gnome 3 as you see it in the screeshots uses Mutter which is like Compiz in a way, displaying 3d graphics in the environment. Without 3d support you are running in fallback mode. In fact you should have gotten a message when starting X that you were in fallback.

Now that you mention it, I don't like this line in the xorg log:
[     8.023] (II) RADEON(0): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS

thx for the hint

Durden

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

You can give the catalyst drivers a try. Would probably resolve it.

binaryanomaly

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Re: [Solved] Missing gnome-shell stuff?

That worked, thanks