[xmonad] xmonad as WM for Gnome 3 in Debian jessie

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Thomas Koch <thomas at koch.ro> wrote:

> 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.

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