Re: Shell Fail Over

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan ubuntu com>]

Whoops my bad I have trouble understanding non native english speakers
sometimes. I just thought that he was asking if he could use a different
window manager with gmome shell.

--fagan

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 18:28 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote:
> El mar, 22-06-2010 a las 17:13 +0100, Shane Fagan escribió:
> > Gnome-shell doesnt work with compiz or any other window manager.
> 
> True, but that wasn't the question :-)
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 17:00 +0100, chris wrote:
> > > Quick question, is it possible to have gnome shell automatically fail
> > > over to another window manager?
> 
> Yes and no. Currently if it fails it will fall back to the "normal"
> windowmanager configured for the session. Obviously this is going to
> fail again if the configured windowmanager is gnome-shell itself :-(
> 
> Maybe it would be an option to launch mutter stand-alone in this case -
> not sure how much effort that would be, I haven't looked at that part of
> the code.
> 
> No promises on the subject, but I think it is worth filing a bug report.
> 
> --Florian
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