Fwd: fluxbox as gnome3 wm

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From: Bob Hepple <[email protected]>
Date: 15 November 2011 09:16
Subject: Re: [Fluxbox-users] fluxbox as gnome3 wm
To: Valter Toffolo <[email protected]>


On 15 November 2011 08:57, Valter Toffolo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey people.
> Once I managed to get fluxbox running fine along with gnome2. See here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1322334
> Now I'm having lots of trouble doing the same with gnome3 (ubuntu 11.10)
> It seems gconf settings has changed a lot. I can't even get nautilus not to
> draw on desktop...

Haven't tried this myself, I run native fluxbox on fedora-15 and 16
and use .fluxbox/startup to start any gnome things I might like.

gconf is dying and gnome is migrating to dconf. There is a
dconf-editor (at least on fedora-15) which you might want to fiddle
with. There is also gnome-tweak-tool which has some pieces of the
puzzle.

The whole thing is complicated by the various paths to getting the
desktop running eg gdm, kdm, startx etc etc which have all become
baroque in complexity especially when permuted with dbus and ubuntu vs
fedora vs X vs Y etc

You can see my fluxbox startup files at
http://bhepple.freeshell.org/oddmuse/wiki.cgi/fluxbox which might give
you some pointers.


Best of luck


Bob

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