On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@xxxxxxxxx> 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
