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murffatksig

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From: Atl

Registered: 2004-05-17

Posts: 362

Gnome 3 graphical glitch

I'm running Gnome3 in a VM on a retina macbook pro.  When I scroll through the applications list, the icons don't scroll smoothly.  They stay on the screen making it difficult to see them.  See the image below.  Anyone have an idea what could cause this?

http://i.imgur.com/Av03Lny.jpg

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Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: Gnome 3 graphical glitch

GNOME Shell doesn't work well in VirtualBox. This is a very well known problem. Ensure that the "Enable 3D Acceleration" box in Settings >> Display is unticked. This will force GS to use software rendering which is slower but should cause fewer graphical glitches.

Last edited by Chazza (2014-04-30 14:03:00)

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 714

Re: Gnome 3 graphical glitch

GNOME Shell doesn't work well in VirtualBox. This is a very well known problem.

Rubbish, I have been running GNOME 3 in VirtualBox forever, on Ubuntu, Arch, and Mac hosts. On current OSX 10.9.2 with current VirtualBox 4.3.10 and running a current Arch X64 guest with community/virtualbox-guest-utils installed as per the Arch wiki, it all works well. It has worked fine for about the last 4 VirtualBox versions, before that there were some issues with 3D acceleration.

I don't have a Retina display however so perhaps there is a host issue with OSX on Retina displays.

murffatksig

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From: Atl

Registered: 2004-05-17

Posts: 362

Re: Gnome 3 graphical glitch

I'm using VMWare Fusion not Virutalbox.  I guess I should've mentioned that in the original post.  I'm chalking it up the combo of retina mac + VMWare fusion.

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