[MLUG] Gnome 3 with fallback is great.

[Nick Sklav]

On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 22:33 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 07:26:35PM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> >  
> > I want to thank you Aaron, for presenting me with the exact path to 
> > fallback.  I selected it, and bumped up my workspaces to the usual 4.  I
> >  can now live with gnome 3.
> > 
> > I don't think I could have found it with my searching.
> 
> Documentation is the great failing of a lot of free software.  Can it be 
> that programmers can't write?
> 
> -- hendrik

In gnome3's defense it is in the documentation I stumbled across it and
enabled it. But to fair i went back to the default look cause it's the
future of gnome 3 so i figured i best get used to it. 
Simply put uninstall gnome-shell and you get fallback mode or 2 switch
to fallback mode as detailed below taken from fedora website wiki.

How to test fallback due to unsupported hardware
     1. Use a system with supported graphics card
     2. Log in to a GNOME session
     3. Verify that you end up with gnome-shell
     4. Switch to a system with a graphics card on which we don't have
        3d support (e.g. a VM)
     5. Log in to a GNOME session again
     6. Verify that you end up with the 'fallback' desktop and that you
        get a dialog informing you about the fact
     7. Repeat the same test with a supported graphics card, but
        uninstall gnome-shell. You should again get the 'fallback'
        desktop

How to test forced fallback
     1. Log in to a GNOME session with a supported graphics card
     2. Go to the 'System Info' panel in the System Settings. and turn
        on 'forced fallback'
     3. Log out and in again
     4. Verify that you end up in fallback mode, and this time you don't
        get the apologetic dialog (since this was your choice)
     5. Verify that you end up