Re: Detecting need for fallback

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com>]

On 6 July 2011 17:18, G. Michael Carter <mikey carterfamily ca> wrote:
> How does gnome shell detect it's not compatible on a system and fallback is
> needed?   Or is it a case of just waiting for gnome-shell to crash?
>
> The reason I ask, I've built a livecd (PXE booted actually) that is text
> based and grabs things like the hardware profile.   As a test I wanted to
> check if Gnome3 would work on the system, without starting the graphics
> server if I can help it.

It's gnome-session that checks for it running helper processes[1].
They need and X server to work though.

Rui

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/tree/tools