On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Mike Sullivan
Does anybody know if there's been progress on this front?
You seem a bit confused. Gnome 3 only "worked" with xmonad and other window managers because it detected them and replaced itself with Gnome 2. (Yes, really. It was never actually working with Gnome 3 /per se/. It was Gnome 2 with a forced Gtk+ theme and panel configuration, designed to resemble Gnome 3. I spent quite a lot of time trying to convince it to let me configure things it wanted to control itself back when Gnome 3 hit Debian testing; all the parts were Gnome 2, but all the interesting parts had their configurations forced and then locked by the initial Gnome 3 startup when it switched to fallback mode.) The Gnome developers no longer support Gnome 2 and have removed the fallback-to-Gnome-2 mechanism from Gnome 3, although some Linux distributions have either lagged on that removal or reintroduced a custom version of it; moreover, they do not have any intent to support natively in Gnome 3 *any* window manager other than gnome-shell (which is not only a window manager but a compositing manager and a panel and a desktop icon manager, etc.). This is not something that xmonad or any other window manager can "fix". It is not something that someone can quick-hack to force Gnome 3 to accept another window manager component. It is not going to happen, unless the Gnome developers decide to support using other window managers. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net