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I'm dealing with a tricky issue, which google knew no answer for. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 32bit as virtual machine in VMware Workstation under a 64 bit Windows7 host system. The surface of Ubuntu is Gnome, after I got a message, that Unity needs some 3D graphics...

Now I shut down my VM and enable the checkbox "Accelerate 3d Graphics" and started again. The VMware tools are also installed in the virtual machine.

Furthermore I tried the following suggestion: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/fix-ubuntu-linux-mint-theme-changing-to.html It didn't work either.

I must admit, I am no pro regarding to linux, so I think I need some help. Thanks for any suggestion!

greetz, poeschlorn

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Ask this on the sister-site, askubuntu.com – j0rd4n Jun 16 '11 at 13:24
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VMWare won't let you use 3D graphics acceleration on non-Windows VM's as Bisti mentioned. What you can do is install the 2D version of Unity:

sudo apt-get install unity-2d-default-settings
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Accelerate 3d Graphics is for Windows VMs only. As far as i know, you can not launch Ubuntu Unity or desktop effects on Workstation for now.

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Not true. I am running Unity in a VMWare Workstation installation. – Kyle Jul 20 '11 at 22:46
@Kyle - Would you care to explain how? That is, after all, what this question is about. You would certainly get my +1 if you could actually answer the question. – Mark Booth Jul 22 '11 at 9:32
Wish I could tell you. I just got the same error message as you, then turned on Accelerate 3d Graphics after rebooting the machine. Works perfectly fine now. I have a GeForce 8800GT, if it matters any (I doubt it). – Kyle Jul 22 '11 at 23:07
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The suggested fix you referenced from http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/fix-ubuntu-linux-mint-theme-changing-to.html worked for me using VMWare Player. However... I had to extend the sleep timeout to "30". This timing value is likely hardware dependant so play around until you find the value that works for you. 

Exec=bash -c "sleep 30; /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon"
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