i don't know, i never tried it but as far as i know it is not a stand alone window manager
i have moved it out of gnome-desktop-base because i am working on compiz gnome
compiz gnome is ready just small issues which is related to Xorg about keybindings and packaging remains
when i kill window manager and restart it keys work as intended also this is reproducable for all other window managers when i have Xorg installed