Bug#645463: gnome-session: [upgrade to gnome3] preferences lost - all fonts reset wrongly

[Michael Biebl]

Am 10.11.2011 15:11, schrieb Philipp Kern:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 04:19:09PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Have you tried the documented way in
>> /usr/share/doc/gnome-session/README.Debian by setting WINDOW_MANAGER to
>> your preferred choice (eg via ~/.gnomerc)?
> 
> yep.  It at least works when following the way documented on the
> awesome Wiki, which involves creating a wrapper so that awesome is
> started in the background.  Didn't try it without it.
> 
> That said you still get gnome-panel.  The awesome wiki tells me not to
> use gnome-session at all but to start all parts that it will invoke by
> myself instead, if I don't want gnome-panel.  (With GNOME 2 one was
> able to deactivate this component.)

just to understand you right: you want to create a custom session based
on gnome-session-fallback?
The required components for gnome-session-fallback are defined in
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session

I'd probably do the following:
- cp /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-awesome.session
(edit gnome-awesome.session to your liking)
- create a file /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-awesome.desktop (for gdm3)
containing something like
[Desktop Entry]
Name=GNOME awesom Session
Exec=gnome-session-awesome
TryExec=gnome-session-awesome
Icon=
- create a shell script /usr/bin/gnome-session-awesome containing
#! /bin/sh
exec gnome-session --session gnome-awesome "$@"


hth,
Michael

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