Re: Run the Shell as a "real" session?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 21:10 -0700, Dean Loros wrote:
> I have been building Gnome-Shell for some time now & was thinking that I
> would like to "really" use it as a session, not just starting it within
> my current Gnome session....How close is it really to run as a
> stand-alone session?  I'm game to get it up by it's self, but would like
> to know how much I would need to startup from a "normal"
> gnome-session...Anyone have a nice custom script I could use?

With the desktop file I just checked in:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-shell/commit/?id=544a80fc6ea0afd2ce2a020f5e7a33f95b4a114f

it should work to do simply:

 ln -s ~/gnome-shell/install/share/applications/gnome-desktop ~/.config/autostart

(remove the symlink to go back to a normal GNOME session.)

Plan here long-term is to have a GUI switching tool. (Probably by
editing the GConf keys rather doing the above.) I'm going to patch the
Fedora tool "desktop-effects" to do this, but we'll have to sort
something out more generally for GNOME, since every distro is doing its
own thing right now for switching between Compiz and Metacity.

- Owen