On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Paul W. Frields <pfrields at redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:45:33PM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote: >> On 03/07/2014 09:57 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> > Another issue is that Gnome3 needs 3D and does not work with x2go (and >> > probably freenx/nx if that is going to be packaged). And I almost >> > never work directly at a console. KDE seems to mostly work, but it >> > is annoying to have to switch after all these years of RedHat pushing >> > GNOME. >> >> To clear something up, IIRC 7 uses GNOME Classic - not stock GNOME 3 - >> as its default, which does *not* require 3D. >> >> In the default desktop, GNOME looks a lot like GNOME 2x. >> >> This isn't to say we shouldn't package Mate or Xfce or any additional >> desktops for CentOS - but it'd be good to make sure people are moving >> away from the defaults as an informed choice. > > GNOME Classic is a set of extensions on top of GNOME 3. However, AIUI > GNOME 3 doesn't require 3D hardware because there is an llvmpipe > backend that will do software rendering on machines without capable > hardware. Performance may be encumbered in that case with a slower > CPU, but should still work. A session won't even start up under x2go. Maybe it has to check real hardware before deciding how to handle 3d. Does anyone know if it works with vnc/Xnest or other virtual-buffer scenarios? Anyone working on freenx? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com