Ok, not sure where all this is going, but here's my story. I rsync'd my saucy partition (has only unity with no xfce/ldx/gnome wizzbangery) into a new partition... then did an insitu upgrade of this new partition to trusty... I then saw a post explaining how to bring in the 'right' gnome so I did a
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-flashback gdm... at the GDM login I now have 5 options, Ubuntu, Gnome with Compiz, Gnome with Metacity, Gnome and Default Session. Delete reference to that last option for the remainder of this post.
So, I tried each method, took a screenie and applied the script mentioned above. Here are the results:
Unity
Code:
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION && echo "-------------------" && wmctrl -m
ubuntu
-------------------
Name: Compiz
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$
Gnome (Compiz) - top panel totally unresponsive
Code:
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION && echo "-------------------" && wmctrl -m
gnome-fallback-compiz
-------------------
Name: Compiz
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$
to
Gnome (Metacity) - top panel totally unresponsive
Code:
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION && echo "-------------------" && wmctrl -m
gnome-fallback
-------------------
Name: Metacity
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: N/A
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$
toto
Gnome - everything pretty much works
Code:
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION && echo "-------------------" && wmctrl -m
gnome
-------------------
Name: GNOME Shell
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: N/A
wayne@trusty-gnome:~$
I really don't want to hijack this thread and would prefer you pursue your original thoughts. Just letting folks know that atm noobs like me are probably going to have problems with gnome-session-flashback installs.