Re: [xmonad] Going Gnomeless (and Unityless on Oneiric)

Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 16:58, Jacek Generowicz wrote:

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- Gnome seems to do a fairly decent job of automatically detecting and managing wireless networks. How would I go about this without Gnome's assistance? Is there something that can be plugged into XMonad which will show me available networks, and allow me to

nm-applet will work with something like trayer instead of the GNOME panel,

Sounds good. Trayer is near the top of my 'check this out' list.

although you may need to run xmonad under ck-start-session.

Hmm, ck-start-session is news to me, and inital searches didn't make me all that much wiser.

wicd is another possibility

That looks promising.

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- What's the quickest way of accessing system settings. I've been trying to run without the unity panel and launcher, but I've had to respawn them just to get access to system setting.

It should be possible to run gnome-control-center

Ah, cool, that's what I was looking for. It certainly solves the immediate problem.

or systemsettings (the KDE version, which you might need to install) without having to start either Gnome or KDE. The latter might work better, as KDE's not as much into the "let's start the whole desktop first!" thing.

Good to know. Some great leads there. Many thanks.