On Thu, 5 May 2011 15:52:15 +0100 Magnus Therning
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?
MT> There is a setting for it, but I only know how to get to it from MT> inside gnome-shell itself, it's called fallback mode, MT> System Settings-> System Info -> Graphics. MT> There's most likely a gconf/dconf/gsettings (or whatever they call the MT> Gnome config system this week) setting for it. That did not work: I still got the Gnome shell even with "fallback" turned on. Moving the gnome-shell executable didn't work either. Ugh. Ted