[OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 11/11/2012 02:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-11-10 17:14, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu 12.10/gnome classic works well enough; just turn off compiz. I
>> tried mint and ran into trouble while compiling llvm. make gobbled
>> memory for a while, and then the desktop restarted itself (I guess?).
>> All my windows: gone.
>
> I manage to turn of compiz but I don't know if I made some bad choices
> in the process because now I only have the desktop. No left or top bar.
>

Ouch. Looks like what I should have said is gnome classic (no effects), 
and I guess compizconfig didn't actually turn anything off. Also, I'm 
working from a clean install, so that might account for behavior 
difference.

It still sucks, though. Found myself wishing I had installed server instead.