[xmonad] Gnome3 and xmonad

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 5 May 2011 15:52:15 +0100 Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote: 

MT> 2011/5/5 Ted Zlatanov <tzz at lifelogs.com>:
>> 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