how to get "gnome classic with compiz" as boot session option?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 26 18:58:32 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 11:50 -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name gnome-fallback
> > 
> > (It's a checkbox in the 'Graphics' section of the System Info control
> > panel.)
> > 
> > From that point, I would think you could then, on login, set up
> > compiz - I haven't tried that.
> 
> Great, thanks. This doesn't put the choice in the gdm login screen like
> previous behavior, but it does get the job done: the session started is
> gnome classic.

Note that you'll have Metacity, not compiz, doing it that way. If you
just wanted the fallback mode, then that's fine. If you wanted compiz
too, try compiz-gnome.
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