document updated 13 years ago, on Aug 13, 2011
overview
Getting one of these to work with Gnome
- see the gnome-wm manpage for details about changing the default window manager
- dropping a new file into /usr/share/xsessions is probably a good idea
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Awesome + Gnome, within Ubuntu 10.10
This worked well for me. Put this in ~/.xinitrc:
eval "`gnome-keyring-daemon`"
export GNOME_KEYRING_PID GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET SSH_AUTH_SOCK
awesome &
ck-launch-session gnome-session # ck-launch-session is advised for the dbus stuff to work fine.
kill $GNOME_KEYRING_PID
And then choose User Defined Session when logging in.
Awesome + Gnome, within Ubuntu 10.10 (take two)
No, this really does work (see the part that applies to Gnome 2.32)
The steps are:
- run the two gconftool-2 commands
- create the file /usr/share/applications/awesome.desktop
Installing the Gnome Awesome applet is nice too.