On 6 July 2011 17:18, G. Michael Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > How does gnome shell detect it's not compatible on a system and fallback is > needed? Or is it a case of just waiting for gnome-shell to crash? > > The reason I ask, I've built a livecd (PXE booted actually) that is text > based and grabs things like the hardware profile. As a test I wanted to > check if Gnome3 would work on the system, without starting the graphics > server if I can help it.
It's gnome-session that checks for it running helper processes[1]. They need and X server to work though. Rui [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/tree/tools _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
