Can anyone tell me why Gnome 3 looks like as if it were a gnome fallback session in my virtualbox?

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Published on 2012-11-20T21:28:04Z Indexed on 2012/11/20 23:22 UTC
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For some reason Gnome 3 wont work in my virtualbox. Both gnome classic and gnome look exactly identical.

The version of my virtualbox is: 4.1.2_ Ubuntu r38459 The 3D acceleration is on in the virtualbox and the Guest Additions is installed in the virtualbox from the software center.

Obviously, the graphic card driver is installed on the main Ubuntu system I am using with my laptop. (although the post-release updates can't be installed for whatever reason)

Gnome shell is installed from the software center in the virtualbox.

Now the issue is that the gnome and gnome classic look like just the same.

Here is an image of what gnome looks like (so does gnome classic too....so I am only posting one image):

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What causes this issue?

By the way....I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome fallback session.

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