Can't get Desktop effects to enable inside VMWare

[applegrew]

I installed Ubuntu Fiesty inside VMWare on my Windows XP Home. I tried starting Desktop Effects but as soon as I click enable Desktop Effects X server restarts and I am brought back to login window. When I login I find it is still not enabled.

What's going on? and from where can I see the log what went wrong since I get no error messages?

[eentonig]

I think this is quite normal. Vmware does not support the graphical powers of 3D rendering that well.

[AndyCooll]

That might be because VMware doesn't use your graphics card settings. It uses it's own "built-in" bog-standard graphics card drivers.

:cool:

[applegrew]

That means I will have to setup dual boot system?

[tanelt]

Yes, but if you have an ATI graphics card like I do, it will most likely not work. It's a piece of cake to install Beryl, though.

[applegrew]

Yes, but if you have an ATI graphics card like I do, it will most likely not work. It's a piece of cake to install Beryl, though.
I have NVidia Geforce Go 7400

[tanelt]

Lucky you. The support for nVidia cards is 10 times better than it is for ATI cards.

It should work straight out of the box without any problems at all.