There's a tutorial called Quickly Setting up Awesome with Gnome <https://www.google.com/search?q=Quickly+Setting+up+Awesome+with+Gnome&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8> describing the process of setting up Awesome in such a way as to retain some features and advantages of GNOME. Since MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, I thought I could apply the steps described for GNOME <3, namely:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false and gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current /usr/bin/awesome or gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current /usr/bin/awesome then write [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Awesome Comment=The awesome launcher! TryExec=awesome Exec=awesome to ~/.local/share/applications/awesome.desktop. Still there was no effect. Could you suggest he steps I should take to figure out what's wrong? Here, or in this Ask Ubuntu question: http://askubuntu.com/q/616520/181242
