On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:41, Paul Johnson <paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
Hi

>> Its both a black screen of death and a black box process. Very frustrating.
>>
>> In gnome 2 when the session crashed one could still run apps (add the term
>> shortut to nautilus, right click on the desktop and you have a term to launch
>> a wm and a browser to look for solutions). In gnome 3 you're finished.
>
> Well it is just a window, you can alt-f4 out of it.

tried that - you get windows up with no minimise bar etc. Close them
and you get the logout warning again... Something is borked - looks
like gnome-shell here.


It might go beyond gnome shell. For me, gdm also failed. gnome-setting-daemon seemed to be crashing. I backed that out and then a different crash ensued.

After several months of trying out gnome and trying to keep an open mind, it was a good opportunity to switch to kde for a while.

darrell