Why switchy can't support LXDE?

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Error Log:

[15:24:01] [info] - Extension Info: v1.6.3
[15:24:01] [info] - Browser Info: 5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) 
AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.9 
Safari/533.2
[15:24:26] [error] - Plugin error: Your Linux distribution isn't supported yet. 
Currently only Gnome and KDE based 
distributions are supported.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peigen...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2010 at 7:24

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It simply does not like any window managers that are not Gnome or KDE.  So 
tiling window managers are out along with stuff like lxde and openbox.  Until 
we get an option to not tie into the builtins of Gnome or KDE it will be like 
this.  I also remember a ticket being opened a while ago for the same issue but 
it seems nothing came of that.

Original comment by mth...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 6:27

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Is there no possibility to make the extension work in lxde? This is the only 
thing i definitely need in chromium.

Original comment by bausparf...@googlemail.com on 28 Oct 2010 at 7:17

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I'm use openbox, always want this extension.
Any new about this?

Original comment by Rory...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2011 at 5:59

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I use Openbox, as well, so this is essential. Is this an issue with the 
extension or with Chrome/Chromium. If the problem lies with Chrome, has someone 
filed a bug report?

Original comment by nick.col...@gmail.com on 3 May 2011 at 6:18

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This worked a few months ago.  I assume it still does.

You can tell chromium to use GNOME settings with

export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default

Then switchy writes gnome settings and chromium reads them without a lot of 
GNOME stuff installed.

See http://peppermintos.net/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2250

Original comment by troycau...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2011 at 2:44