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archyboy

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Registered: 2017-11-11

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[SOLVED] Gnome on Oracle VM Unusable because of bad performance

I installed LXDM as the display manager because gdm and lightdm are only displaing a blackscreen. Selecting the destkop environment gnome is loading the destkop environment but the performance is so bad that it is unusable. Using cinnamon with software rendering is providing good performance.

I want to use the gnome desktop environment. What is causing this poor performance? Which graphic driver do I need to install running arch as a virtual machine?

I will provide further information when requested.

Last edited by archyboy (2017-11-11 22:02:49)

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome on Oracle VM Unusable because of bad performance

It sounds like the guest additions aren't installed.

Did you follow the steps outlined in the Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests?

archyboy

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome on Oracle VM Unusable because of bad performance

Now I have a working graphical environment. You are propably right, I read this article but I may have forgot to execute `VBoxClient-all`. I'm now using SDDM and Plasma. I will try if gdm is working as well.

archyboy

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome on Oracle VM Unusable because of bad performance

Yep gdm is working as well, ty

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome on Oracle VM Unusable because of bad performance

Hey archyboy, welcome to the forums.
Please always remember to mark a solved thread by editing the subject of your first post. Thanks.

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