Gnome and Ubuntu 12.04 beta

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 14/04/12 23:56, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 22:19 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> I hope someone can help me overcome a mental block. I installed Ubuntu
>> 12.04 beta 2 in a VM so that I can evaluate the user interface of Gnome
>> 3.4. Synaptic shows that it is installed on my system, but I've no idea
>> how to invoke it. The only options I'm offered at login are Ubuntu
>> (Unity) and Ubuntu 2D, presumably also Unity 2D.
>>
>> Anyone?
>
> You need to install gnome shell (or cinnamon) if you want a non-unity
> gnome 3.x desktop.
>
>
Yes, that gets me to a Gnome desktop, but it appears to be 3.2 rather 
than the 3.4 I (thought I) installed.:-) A bit more poking around in 
Synaptic seems to be called for.

Thanks for the pointer.

Peter HB