On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 06:15:42PM -0500, Brett Viren wrote: > > I tried replacing "gnome-shell" with "sawfish" but then the option is > no longer presented in GDM3's login screen.
If I understood you properly a goal was to run sawfish but to keep gnome panels, backgrounds and the like. I had at last an opportunity to try that and the following worked for me with no troubles: - start gnome session and run 'gnome-session-properties' - in a list of autostart programs add an entry which executes 'sawfish --replace'. - logout and start a GNOME session again; sawfish is running as a window manager. I tried that using all executables, sawfish including, from Fedora rawhide (sawfish-1.8.91-2.fc17) and on a hardware which allows only for a "fallback mode" so I do not know what effects would be in a full blown gnome-shell. Otherwise I have in gdm an option to run a sawfish session, thanks to a file /usr/share/xsessions/sawfish.desktop supplied by a 'sawfish' package, but this gives you a bare-bones sawfish and it is up to you to add other desktop elements to your liking. It does not look to me like a serious "lock-in". Michal --- -- Sawfish ML
