[xmonad] Getting xmonad working with GNOME 3.8?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Mike Sullivan <mbsullivan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Does anybody know if there's been progress on this front?
>

You seem a bit confused.

Gnome 3 only "worked" with xmonad and other window managers because it
detected them and replaced itself with Gnome 2. (Yes, really. It was never
actually working with Gnome 3 /per se/. It was Gnome 2 with a forced Gtk+
theme and panel configuration, designed to resemble Gnome 3. I spent quite
a lot of time trying to convince it to let me configure things it wanted to
control itself back when Gnome 3 hit Debian testing; all the parts were
Gnome 2, but all the interesting parts had their configurations forced and
then locked by the initial Gnome 3 startup when it switched to fallback
mode.)

The Gnome developers no longer support Gnome 2 and have removed the
fallback-to-Gnome-2 mechanism from Gnome 3, although some Linux
distributions have either lagged on that removal or reintroduced a custom
version of it; moreover, they do not have any intent to support natively in
Gnome 3 *any* window manager other than gnome-shell (which is not only a
window manager but a compositing manager and a panel and a desktop icon
manager, etc.).

This is not something that xmonad or any other window manager can "fix". It
is not something that someone can quick-hack to force Gnome 3 to accept
another window manager component.

It is not going to happen, unless the Gnome developers decide to support
using other window managers.

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