[arch-general] moving away from gnome

[Jan Steffens]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> 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?

Probably gnome-settings-daemon