Comments on: After 3 years, my xmonad configuration now uses GNOME http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/after-3-years-my-xmonad-configuration-now-uses-gnome/ A Journal of Haskell Programming Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alex http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/after-3-years-my-xmonad-configuration-now-uses-gnome/#comment-609 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:53:12 +0000 http://donsbot.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-609 Hey Don,

I have been using XMonad for about a year, but would not yet say that it is easy to configure nor that Xmonad works well with Gnome. Perhaps my my hacks and work-arounds over the years have blinded me by the new simplicity, but please show me the light! :)

I’ve documented each installation of Xmonad on Ubuntu 09.10, 10.04, with dozens of confirmed success stories:

http://genaud.net/2010/04/xmonad-on-karmic-koala/
http://genaud.net/2010/05/xmonad-on-lucid-lynx/

Following the same directions for 10.10, I experience a number of issues that prevent me from extolling Xmonad to mainstream Gnome friends: seahorse, logout, panels hidden behind windows.

I would love to see a step-by-step Xmonad installation/configuration tutorial on a freshly installed Ubuntu 10.10. This would do wonders for the Xmonad user base and in turn would give it upstream support in Ubuntu/Debian.

Cheers,
Alex

]]> By: Chris Witte http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/after-3-years-my-xmonad-configuration-now-uses-gnome/#comment-418 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:18:48 +0000 http://donsbot.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-418 I’ve tried using something similar to your setup (but using an xmonad.start file instead of .xinitrc) but I can’t get logout to work. I think gnomeConfig binds Mod-Q to spawn “gnome-session-save –kill” and seeing I don’t have gnome-session running, this command fails. How do you get around this?

Thanks
Chris.

]]> By: Gour http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/after-3-years-my-xmonad-configuration-now-uses-gnome/#comment-411 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:42:36 +0000 http://donsbot.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-411 Hi dons,

nice to hear about your xmonad ‘refactoring’.

However, I wonder what will happen with xmonad+gnome combo after gnome-3.0 release which will be more hostile to WMs?

Sincerely,
Gour

]]> By: Joachim Breitner http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/after-3-years-my-xmonad-configuration-now-uses-gnome/#comment-410 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:39:43 +0000 http://donsbot.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-410 Remember Hackathon 2007 in Freibug, where I wrote the EWMH module as basically my first action in the Haskell Community. It is always nice to see ones code in use, especially by the original authors of the software one contributes to!

]]> By: Joe http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/after-3-years-my-xmonad-configuration-now-uses-gnome/#comment-400 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:30:51 +0000 http://donsbot.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-400 I’ve always used (only) the following with gnome:

export WINDOW_MANAGER=/home/joe/.cabal/bin/xmonad
export PATH=”/home/joe/.cabal/bin:$PATH”

What does the gnome config add?

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