On Thu, 19 May 2011 14:07:22 +0900 Jens Petersen
After playing with Gnome 3 for a bit, I've decided to simply stop using Gnome and use XFCE instead. Thanks for the help but Gnome 3 really gets in the way of using XMonad effectively, so I won't bother (and I'll save myself quite a bit of memory and CPU as well).
JP> Were you using Gnome 2 before? Gnome 3 fallback seems pretty JP> similar to Gnome 2 - so just curious if you see any new JP> issues with using xmonad in Gnome 3's fallback mode? I didn't need fallback in Gnome 2. I can't force fallback in Gnome 3, it still doesn't use gnome-panel. The best way I found so far (as suggested here) is: % cat /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/xmonad.session [GNOME Session] Name=Xmonad Required=windowmanager;panel;filemanager; Required-windowmanager=xmonad Required-panel=gnome-panel Required-filemanager=nautilus DefaultApps=gnome-settings-daemon; #RequiredComponents=gnome-shell;gnome-settings-daemon; RequiredComponents=gnome-settings-daemon; IsRunnableHelper=/usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-check-accelerated FallbackSession=gnome-fallback % cat ~/.xsession #!/bin/sh gnome-session --session=xmonad ...and then use the "custom X" GDM session. This uses Gnome 2 components, I believe. Incidentally, XFCE works OK but wasn't any better than Gnome 2. So since I'm used to Gnome 2 I'm using the solution above for now. I certainly wish I could use the Gnome 3 components but they've made third-party window managers a really difficult option. Very frustrating since I've always been a Gnome supporter and have been using custom window managers since 1995 (ctwm was my first one; I've also used Enlightenment, CDE, Ion 2 and 3, wmii, and StumpWM[1] before finding XMonad). Ted [1] it was hard to give up StumpWM's Lisp configuration for Haskell because I am very comfortable with Lisp, but Haskell has its charms