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I just replace the window manager. If that can't be done, GNOME is not for me anymore.
by silon3 14y ago
I just replace the window manager. If that can't be done, GNOME is not for me anymore.
- mpyne 14y agoAs far as I know, the GNOME 3 "experience" relies heavily on the Mutter window manager and so it can't be easily replaced. Maybe someone else can chime in to confirm one way or the other though.
- mseepgood 14y agoIn fact, gnome-shell is the window manager binary by linking to libmutter. Running gnome-shell with another window manager is as feasible as running twm with fvwm (i.e. not feasible).
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- bkor 14y agoJust as "gnome-shell" is an extension to Mutter, you can also add other extensions to Mutter IIRC (I mean Mutter extensions, these are different than the stuff on extensions.gnome.org). Furthermore, you should be able to change the behaviour of GNOME shell window manager behaviour via GNOME shell extensions as well. The latter might be a bit buggy though.
- mseepgood 14y agoGnome Shell is not an extension to Mutter (it once was, but that changed before the 3.0 release; it's still wrong in Wikipedia). Today Gnome Shell is a window manager implemented by using libmutter.