GNOME 3 Fallback Mode

Sandro Mani manisandro at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 13:28:22 UTC 2011


Am I the only one having problems with entries in /etc/xdg/autostart not 
getting executed in the fallback session? This leads for example to the 
fact that policykit authentication does not work, since the 
authentication agent is not running.

Thanks
Sandro

On 04/28/2011 05:55 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 16:27 +0200, Martin Stransky wrote:
>> On 04/27/2011 03:10 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>> Lots of things are unfortunate.  This is software, after all.  I regret
>>> not working on this earlier, since it would probably have saved the
>>> effort invested in fallback mode entirely.
>> I think the fallback mode is a great idea, not everyone is excited by
>> gnome shell and those people are looking at Xfce.
> Except that the fallback mode is a poor-man's shell, not a completely
> different environment that will take its own direction.
>
> It's like looking at the picture in the tour guide when standing in
> front of the monument. Sure you can do it, but the experience isn't
> going to be that interesting.
>


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