xmonad as WM for Gnome 3 in Debian jessie
Hi, 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? I've opened a debian bug about this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772179 Regards, Thomas Koch
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Thomas Koch
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. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
On 6 December 2014 at 11:10, Brandon Allbery
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.
I am currently using xmonad as WM for XFCE and it works fine and it is easy to configure. I also tried it with LXDE and it worked well. Regards, -- Alexandre Medeiros Institute of Computing - University of Campinas BSc Computer Science Student GNU/Linux user #562691 http://alemedeiros.sdf.org/
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