Hi, I've been using xmonad on top of gnome for some time now. I would really like to drop gnome, and use xmonad straight up. However, gnome has a number of small but significant features that I need to find replacements for: Must Have: 1. System tray: This is where many apps I use (e.g. Pidgin, Skype, Aqualung, Dropbox, etc.) place icons so I can see some status about them, and sometimes interact with them (though mostly just status). 2. Network: This also exists in the system tray but I separated it out because it's really important. This is the ability to see if I am connected or not, and to be able to choose wifi networks to connect to. 3. gnome-do: I use this as an easy way to launch applications. I don't use most of the more complicated features like combining objects and verbs. Nice to Have: 4. High-level view of all desktops and which apps are running on each. 5. Date, time, and whether. 6. System statistics. I have tried both xmonbar and dzen2, but had a hard time getting all the features I needed to work. I was hoping someone can point out what I can use to replace each of these, and throw in some good documentation to boot. I would love to ditch Gnome. Thanks for your help.