On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
I'm installing a new machine with debian jessie which comes with xmonad 0.11
and gnome 3.14. On debian wheezy I could easily use xmonad as the window
manager for gnome. Has anybody managed to do the same with a more recent gnome
(classic)? What would be a good strategy to try?

It can't be done. The way it worked in older versions is it ran Gnome 2 instead; this ("gnome-fallback") was removed in Gnome 3.8. Gnome 3 itself has never supported using anything but gnome-shell as the window manager, and the Gnome developers have made it clear that it never will.

You may want to try using xmonad with Maté; that, being a supported fork of Gnome 2, should be configurable to resemble the old fallback mode.

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