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installing gnome-shell gives me gnome 2 instead of 3

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I just installed ubuntu 12.04 and wanted to use the gnome 3 shell, according to this site it was just a matter of installing the gnome shell as gnome 3 is already part of ubuntu 12.04

So I did sudo apt-get install gnome-shell and logged out, selected gnome and logged in and I was looking at gnome 2 instead of 3. What went wrong?

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answered 3 Years ago wheance · Accepted Answer

gnome-shell requires some level of 3D hardware-acceleration to work.

It doesn't have to be special hardware - integrated graphics should in almost all cases be fine. But 3D acceleration must be working.

Gnome 3's window manager, mutter, is a compositing window manager that is OpenGL accelerated.

If gnome-shell doesn't detect that you have the right capabilities, it'll load into a "fallback mode" which means it loads an old-style panel that looks like Gnome 2 and it doesn't use a compositing window manager.

Ubuntu has helpful ways of installing proprietary drivers for graphics - have you tried these?