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lsuengineer
February 16th, 2010, 03:07 AM
Hello,
I recently installed gnome-shell and set it and mutter as my defaults. Under gconf-editor, "windowmanager" is set to "gnome-shell." My question is what is the default gnome window manager?

Thanks

xtracool_protik
February 16th, 2010, 06:53 AM
Default window manager for gnome is metacity(gtk), not sure if that answered ur question -- I couldn't understand it completely

aristoddler
February 20th, 2010, 04:01 AM
I also replaced "windowmanager" with "gnome-shell" in gconf-editor. Now Gnome shell is moving impossibly slow and I have no idea how to return to the normal panel.. help )

ashikrobi
March 19th, 2011, 07:16 AM
U can try to uninstall gnome-shell from ubuntu software center. But without it u can get default shell.

alt-F2
gconf-editor
desktop>gnome>session>required_component
right click windowmanager and click on edit key.
Now on value box you need to type gnome-wm. Log out and log back in. Thats all.

I believe if u try compiz or metacity instead of gnome-wm, it will work also.
Good luck.