[xmonad] Gnome3 and xmonad

[Magnus Therning]

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

That sounds like a bug to me.  Switching on fallback mode does work for me.

/M

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