On 02/25/2012 12:07 PM, Andrea Crotti 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? I've been moving away from gnome too. But piece-by-piece while I learn how to replace the components I need. The first step I did was take the /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session file and put it in ~/.config/gnome-session/sessions/, then edit it to replace the window manager with openbox. You could do the same with awesome. FYI: I've found that some of the autostart applications that I want in /etc/xdg/autostart require the session name to be gnome gnome* or gnome-fallback to work properly. -Matt
