I am trying to stop using unity and make awesome my default display manager while still having gnome as my default desktop environment. I am following the instructions at this page. I did however base my gnome session on the gnome classic session. I created the following files:
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-nounity.session:
[GNOME Session]
Name=GNOME no Unity
RequiredComponents=gnome-panel;gnome-settings-daemon;
RequiredProviders=windowmanager;notifications;launcher;panel;
DefaultProvider-windowmanager=awesome
DefaultProvider-notifications=notify-osd
DefaultProvider-launcher=unity-2d-launcher
DefaultProvider-panel=cairo-dock
IsRunnableHelper=/usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-check-accelerated
FallbackSession=gnome-fallback
DesktopName=GNOME
/usr/share/applications/awesome.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Awesome
Comment=The awesome launcher!
TryExec=awesome
Exec=awesome
/usr/share/xsessions/gnome-nounity.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=GNOME Classic no unity
Comment=This session logs you into GNOME with the traditional panel
Exec=gnome-session --session=gnome-nounity
TryExec=gnome-session
Icon=
Type=Application
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-session-3.0
I am choosing GNOME no Unity
at login. But somehow metacity will keep starting. Is there something wrong with my configuration? Or is there some other reason metacity is starting. Maybe gnome-fallback is launching, but why and how to check? Please help me out, I really do want my display manager to be awesome
;)