How is gnome working now with trusty?

[sdowney717]

I use the gnome desktop on 12.04
I read before has some trouble?

[cariboo]

I'm not sure which gnome you are asking about, but I have Trusty gnome-shell installed on a 16GiB usb thumb drive, I don't update it as often as I should, so when I do it usually takes about half an hour. I used it all day yesterday, after one of my hard drives crashed, trying to get a working Trusty daily iso, I even used it to create a bootable usb thumb drive about 4 times, it booted every time, but the first 3 times ubiquity crashed to the point where all I had was a black screen..

Gnome-shell itself ran great without any hiccups.

[23dornot23d]

I have been doing a test with upgrading from a very early version of Ultimate 2.8 and have taken it right upto 14.04

here is a video of the Gnome Classic running in it ...... my main interest is always in 3d ........ but I still have a problem
with something I use a lot ........ which is wings3d ( this seems to have been removed from the repos from before saucy )

Here is a video ..... but its running on a optimus laptop with a nvidia gt540m graphics card ..........

http://youtu.be/f5gFtLoLCb4

Gnome shell runs well too ........ will post a video of that soon ......... just to show it off
also have compiz running in xfce .... but that seems a tad unstable at the moment but
no doubt it will get sorted.

The devs are doing a great job this time and there seems to be a few choices for desktops
hope that remains for the final release ....... so far having fun ........

[sdowney717]

Great news, I expect I will upgrade this weekend then.

[23dornot23d]

Not sure if its stable till April ....... would have to look up when the release date is .........

This is the video of Gnome-Shell ..... http://youtu.be/5l9tQMIPJzs

With the small problem with wings3d ...... if anyone knows how to fix the flickering that would be
a bonus ..... but as I say its only in wings3d at the moment.

They seem to have removed wings3d from the repos ....... maybe one way of solving problems
but not the way I would like them sorting.

Will post some more if you want ...... but the other things are compiz and enlightenment
just check my You tube channel ....... as I usually add things there if I get problems or success

I like this new version ....... first time my graphics have worked something like on this optimus
machine too ........ but had to do a little work to sort it out.

[kurt18947]

It may depend on your hardware. I have 2 installs of 14.04 running - 1 homebuilt AMD based MoBo with Nvidia 210 video and a Thinkpad T61 w/Intel video. The desktop is running quite well. The Thinkpad, usually a smooth ride with Ubuntu is having issues. I've reinstalled a couple times but I'm having problems with suspend/resume and also logging out/logging in. I get a black screen with maybe a mouse pointer but no desktop. Cold boots are usually okay though I occasionally have to reboot. I installed XFCE4 (Not XFCE-desktop) and it seems unaffected so it appears to me like a gnome-shell issue.

[OGpmpdog]

It may depend on your hardware. I have 2 installs of 14.04 running - 1 homebuilt AMD based MoBo with Nvidia 210 video and a Thinkpad T61 w/Intel video. The desktop is running quite well. The Thinkpad, usually a smooth ride with Ubuntu is having issues. I've reinstalled a couple times but I'm having problems with suspend/resume and also logging out/logging in. I get a black screen with maybe a mouse pointer but no desktop. Cold boots are usually okay though I occasionally have to reboot. I installed XFCE4 (Not XFCE-desktop) and it seems unaffected so it appears to me like a gnome-shell issue.

+1 here

Howdy, I've been running UG 14.04 on my T61 w/Nvidia card; despite recent & hairy updates, GS is working buttery smooth. Suspend/Resume'Logout/in work fine.

The only issue I had was that I had to upgrade to Nvidia 331, the Trusty kernels didnt like 319 or 325.

However, on my UG desktop, I must reconfigure my dual-monitor setup each reboot. I dont know why the monitor config file resets each reboot. Everything else is working beautifully.

Peace.

[23dornot23d]

Must admit that the storing of the screen configs dual screen seems to get lost each time I restart too
gets a tad annoying - setting it up each time ............... http://youtu.be/7PlKDCXBFsE

Almost as if the config file is not being used after the initial change or something else keeps over riding our choices.

I got to the stage of getting the lxde xrandr script and putting it into the ~/.config/autostart/

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=LXRandR autostart
Comment=Start xrandr with settings done in LXRandR
Exec=xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1280x720 --rate 60.0 --output LVDS1 --mode 1366x768 --rate 60.0
OnlyShowIn=LXDE

but its not a pretty way of doing things and it takes extra time for the computer setting it up.

[kansasnoob]

I use the gnome desktop on 12.04
I read before has some trouble?

Much more info is needed to give an accurate answer

Which GNOME DE are you using in Precise?

The default GNOME DE is now gnome-shell but there are alternative GNOME DE's:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2184682

What trouble have you read about

[sdowney717]

Much more info is needed to give an accurate answer

Which GNOME DE are you using in Precise?

The default GNOME DE is now gnome-shell but there are alternative GNOME DE's:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2184682

What trouble have you read about

I think gnome 3.6?
I use gnome shell

Regarding troubles recalling some posts from a couple months ago gnome shell not working in trusty.
Things change, so checked in to see what's up.
I am doing the upgrade right now.

12.04 is wearing thin, I am having some issues, like desktop crashes with serious error, vlc not playing smooth due to old libavcodec, and oddly takes a long long time to show the desktop, and programs take a long time to come up with the hard drive working hard. fragmented files??