Discovered why GNOME Classic in Jessie has awful multi-head window management; it no longer uses Metacity.
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@rjek but mutter is basically meta city with GL rendering
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@rossburton Except all the bugs. But new GNOME is Shell, not mutter, AFAICT.
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@rjek gnome-shell links to libmutter
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@rossburton Any chance of a way to have gnome-shell *NOT* be the WM? I want Gnome+XMonad back :-(
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@dsilverstone short answer: no.
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Replying to @rossburton
@rossburton I guess I'd best start working out how to replace Gnome for my use-case then. *sadface*

Jan 17, 2015 ยท 11:44 AM UTC