> GNOME is the entity that is placing additional restrictions on window > managers. If you want to run GNOME, you need a GNOME-compatible > window manager. And if you want to run GNOME 3, you need a window > manager compatible with GNOME 3. No other WindowManager than Mutter (which is, btw. german for mother) is compatible with GNOME3. That is, because the GNOME-Shell is - to put it plainly - a module of Mutter, thus only works with it. This is - in my opinion - a major fail. It lead Canonical to Unity (which on it's own seems to have the same architectural problem - only works with Compiz as far as I can remember, so isn't any better). Plasma on the other hand allows for any WM to run (and is way more flexible). Maybe the concept of GNOME-Shell is good, maybe leading into another direction, but with Ubuntu splitting off and not allowing other WMs to be used with GNOME-Shell, the GNOME Team made a big mistake. They say only this way a unique experience can be made. This couldn't be, if the user switches components. I don't share this opinion, 'cause: if the user switches a component (WM, FileManager, Panel) it's intentional, thus the user expects the behaviour changes, and won't complain about it.So there's no reason, other than having more control, (possibly) better marketing or ignorance for power-users to do it like they did. I'm sure several of you won't agree, but that's what I think. Other WMs only work in fallback mode, which will be at the earliest finished with 3.2 and surely not what you expect, if you think of it as a real "GNOME2" with code cleanups (actually I won't put effort into making Sawfish integrate with GNOME3-Fallback, as I switched to KDE4 meanwhile, but if someone else provides patches, I'll of course accept them, as I don't mind what you use or don't use). Chris
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