Comment 8 for bug 731329

That wasn't so bad... I restarted, chose awesome from the environment menu option list at the bottom of the login screen - that produced awesome, but no gnome, so I restarted, chose Ubuntu Classic - (not the "no effects" choice).

Note: I also set awesome as my window manager again with gconf in the midst of all that:

https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_with_Gnome

Hope this helps!