Re: Why fork Gnome version also questions?
13.04 uses unity 3d as the shell by default just like 12.10 does.
What desktop are you trying to use? gnome-shell? ubuntu doesn't include gnome-shell out of the box (and never has), you need to install it and select it from the login screen. The default session should be unity 3d.
It sounds like you may have logged into the fallback mode somehow.
13.04 is still extremely early in development, it doesn't come out until april. There's no way to downgrade, you'd need to download 12.10 and reinstall.
Last edited by screaminj3sus; December 4th, 2012 at 12:41 AM.
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