Re: [xmonad] Gnome3 and xmonad

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 09:13, Jens Petersen wrote:

On 1 May 2011 17:46, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Gnome3 just hit my distribution and after the upgrade from Gnome2 I no longer get xmonad on login :(

What distro are you using btw?

ArchLinux

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There are many things I like about Gnome3 and the shell, but I've gotten really used to xmonad, manipulating windows via the keyboard, and most importantly I love the tiling window placement.

I can't seem to find any description of using xmonad with Gnome3, is there any?

I did this recently for Fedora 15 (also for bluetile) which will ship shortly with GNOME3.

Short summary story:

1. create a xmonad.session file for gnome-session   to live in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions iirc 2. run: gnome-session --session=xmonad 3. (Better create an xsession file to do 2.)

The fedora 15 packages of xmonad and bluetile already have the above and should just work: you can just select "xmonad GNOME" (or "GNOME + bluetile") from gdm.

Thanks for this, I'll try it out later today. /M -- Magnus Therning                      OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org   jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe               http://therning.org/magnus