Thank You Owen--I played around with that last weekend--mucked about with enough to b0rk my main testing install (was due for a rebuild anyway). I'll set that up & give it a whirl....
Looks like I was not to the punch fast enough 'bout the mutter break last night--builds very well this morning... Cheers!!! autocrosser @ ubuntuforums > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:31:13 -0400 > From: Owen Taylor <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Run the Shell as a "real" session? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > End of gnome-shell-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 > *********************************************** > > -- Dean Loros autocrosser at ubuntuforums.org Performance by Design Ltd. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
