Re: [xmonad] Gnome3 and xmonad

2011/5/5 Ted Zlatanov :

On Sun, 1 May 2011 18:16:11 +1000 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

ILM> On 1 May 2011 18:46, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Gnome3 just hit my distribution and after the upgrade from Gnome2 I no longer get xmonad on login :(

There are many things I like about Gnome3 and the shell, but I've gotten really used to xmonad, manipulating windows via the keyboard, and most importantly I love the tiling window placement.

I can't seem to find any description of using xmonad with Gnome3, is there any?

ILM> Well, isn't GnomeShell part of the new Mutter WM?  So if you manage to ILM> work out how to use xmonad, then AFAIK you lose the shell.

ILM> Some info appears to be here: ILM> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3#Introduction

I'm starting gnome-panel manually in the XMonad desktop session in order to get the old (Ubuntu 10.10, Gnome 2) behavior with XMonad.  The Gnome shell session you can install in Ubuntu 11.04 from the Gnome 3 repository doesn't start gnome-panel.

Supposedly gnome-panel will be used as a fallback in case the machine can't handle the new Gnome shell.  I can't find a way to force that fallback, though, in the Wiki above or with Google searches.  Does anyone know?

There is a setting for it, but I only know how to get to it from inside gnome-shell itself, it's called fallback mode, System Settings -> System Info -> Graphics. There's most likely a gconf/dconf/gsettings (or whatever they call the Gnome config system this week) setting for it. On ArchLinux you can also simply remove the gnome-shell package in order to force fallback mode. /M -- Magnus Therning                      OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org   jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe               http://therning.org/magnus