Installing Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.04 (running on VirtualBox)

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  •  06-06-2021
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Question

So I've installed the Cinnamon desktop environment on my Virtual machine but it looks exactly the same as the classic Gnome desktop (fact, I tried installing Gnome 3 and it looks the same as classic as well). My video memory is set at the max (128 MB). What am I doing wrong?

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Solution

I believe that your virtual machine does not have access to the accelerated graphics hardware and therefore the session falls back to gnome classic. Try it on a physical desktop.

OTHER TIPS

You have to enable 3D acceleration in settings. And make sure about 64MB or more video memory is given. Then cinnamon will work. Otherwise it will fall back to gnome 2 classic.

See proof.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/gizfm.jpg

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