On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Michal Jaegermann <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is ignored because gnome3 is using 'gsettings' and not 'gconf'. > There is a graphic front-end for the first, called dconf, but it is > so clumsy right now that 'gsettings' utility seems to be vastly > preferable.
There doesn't seem to be any window manager setting there. "gsettings list-recursively" Seems to dump everything and I find nothing grepping for metacity, compiz or the usual suspects. > > If anything can be set there to affect a window manager choice I > have no idea. Looks like not. > > OTOH "Classic GNOME" can be started up from gdm because there is > a file /usr/share/xsessions/compiz-gnome.desktop and in it: > > Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-session --session=compiz-gnome > > where this 'compiz-gnome' is described by a text file > /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/compiz-gnome.session On Debian there is /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop that provides "Classic GNOME". It exec's gnome-session-fallback but that doesn't like the "--session" argument added. Looking at the xsession and gnome-session/sessions/ for plain gnome I don't see what should be added. I'm guessing this line from gnome.session is relevant: RequiredComponents=gnome-shell;gnome-settings-daemon; I tried replacing "gnome-shell" with "sawfish" but then the option is no longer presented in GDM3's login screen. This kind of stuff is reaching MicroSoft levels of lockout. -Brett. --- -- Sawfish ML
