unity not loading!

[Elie-M]

i have the desktop edition which has gnome of course. I decided to try out unity. I installed it from synaptic, and relogged choosing netbook-edition. Unity didn't load (nothing on my desktop but the wallpaper and the mouse cursor)

If I want to see the unity desktop I must summon a terminal window and do:

export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none
mutter --replace


Why?? what does these commands mean and is there any fix for that?

[Elie-M]

bump

[P4man]

You have installed the complete ubuntu-netbook metapackage or only unity? If the latter, try the former .

[kerry_s]

just add "export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none" to your ~/.profile file. it's a simple work around for some problem vid cards.

echo "export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none" >> ~/.profile

you shouldn't have to do the "mutter --replace" after that.