On 02/25/2012 12:07 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
I would like to move away from Gnome, which I don't need at all since I only need to launch: - emacs - conkeror - thunderbird - gnome-terminal
and I don't even use the menu but Alt-f2 for that. The main problem though is that on this laptop (a dell latitude E6420) if I'm not using gnome I can't make it suspend properly.
The strange thing is that if I am in a gnome-session closing the lid or calling suspend from the gnome menu everything works.
But if I fire up awesome only then closing the lid doesn't work anymore.
So the question is, what is gnome magically firing up that other window managers don't?
I would also like to try xmonad finally, but I've never been able to configure it yet. I have an ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file (the default one copied) that compiles perfectly, but if I try a startx the screen just stays blank, without logging any error in the Xorg.0.log.
Any idea of what it could be?
I've been moving away from gnome too. But piece-by-piece while I learn how to replace the components I need. The first step I did was take the /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session file and put it in ~/.config/gnome-session/sessions/, then edit it to replace the window manager with openbox. You could do the same with awesome. FYI: I've found that some of the autostart applications that I want in /etc/xdg/autostart require the session name to be gnome gnome* or gnome-fallback to work properly. -Matt