after installing ubuntu 12.10 the desktop does not display correctly

Question

I've installed vmware player on my windows 7 in order to run ubuntu 12.10.. The ubuntu installation went well with no errors or display faults, but after restarting the vm at the end of the installation process i get the desktop with no visible sidebar or any menu bars at all.. They are active but the graphics is all black or corrupted.

please help. thank you!

Solution 1

on vmware player Do "Edit virtual Machine settings" On "Hardware tab" go to "Display" Clear "Accelerate 3D graphics"

Solution 2

I had the same issue... The installed version of the VMware Player on my host machine was 4, so i upgraded to 5. After that I checked the Accelerate 3D graphics option in the display settings of the virtual machine. Everything went fine from there.

Execute /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p and check if Unity 3D support is available.

Solution 3

I had the same issue with 12.10.

I installed 12.04 and was able to send a CTRL+ALT+DEL command to log off... then i changed the option to ubuntu 2d before logging on and everything worked fine.

Not sure if that option works under 12.10... but it def worked for me under 12.04.

Comments

[bain]

possible duplicate of Problems running Ubuntu 12.10 in VMWare Player 5

[Montag451]

possible duplicate of Ubuntu 2D working fine, but not Ubuntu virtual machine in VMWare Wokstation 9 Windows 7 Host