[xmonad] Gnome3 and xmonad

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:16:11PM +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> On 1 May 2011 18:46, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> > Gnome3 just hit my distribution and after the upgrade from Gnome2 I no
> > longer get xmonad on login :(
> >
> > There are many things I like about Gnome3 and the shell, but I've
> > gotten really used to xmonad, manipulating windows via the keyboard,
> > and most importantly I love the tiling window placement.
> >
> > I can't seem to find any description of using xmonad with Gnome3, is
> > there any?
> 
> Well, isn't GnomeShell part of the new Mutter WM?  So if you manage to
> work out how to use xmonad, then AFAIK you lose the shell.
> 
> Some info appears to be here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3#Introduction

That page doesn't explain how to replace metacity with something else,
like xmonad, when using Gnome3 in fallback mode.  I've failed to find
anything about this online; I had a working setup in Gnome2, and the
configuration is still there when looking in gconf, but it doesn't
work in Gnome3.  Any pointers on this would be appreciated.

/M

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