Forcing Gnome to start sans metacity

[Yaakov Nemoy]

2008/12/18 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
>> This is intended to be default behavior only if you install a special
>> xmonad-gnome-session package, though i'm planning on doing one for kde
>> too.  Presumably, if the user wants this behavior, then the package is
>> needed, but realistically, if /etc/xdg/autostart implies that it is
>> forced on the user in KDE, then you're right, it's a bad solution,
>> because i'm really looking to have this remain optional, via GDM or
>> KDM (/usr/share/xsessions/*)
>
> KDE allows setting the preferred WM in systemsettings under Advanced /
> Session management. I'm not sure where it gets its list of WMs from though,
> at least KWin and Metacity are detected.

KDE's very easy to configure, thankfully.  A package called
xmonad-gnome-session that starts up KDE probably wouldn't be very
welcome though ;).

-Yaakov