Please stop complaining about Unity and install Gnome Shell

[Liam Proven]

On 26 October 2011 15:41, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Amedee Van Gasse
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>> I wanted to contribute something constructive to the list.
>>
>> 1. open a console
>> 2. sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
>> 3. log out
>> 4. choose Gnome
>> 5. log in
>> 6. be happy
>> 7. send a reply to the list to thank me for my awesome advice
>> 8. ???
>> 9. profit!
>
> I tried that and in the menus, the text has white squares in random
> letter positions.  Some letters show, others have a white box.
>
> I logged back out and tried kde plasma and that looks fine.  Any ideas
> about Gnome?

You might need to reset the theme to something more GNOME 3-friendly.

Hints & guidance here:
http://blog.poggs.com/2011/10/ubuntu-11-10-for-productive-people/

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