[xmonad] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager

18 Jan 2010


      Try disabling Nautilus.

nowgate:
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My latest .xsession-errors listing, after reboot:
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-5vknhv/socket
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-5vknhv/socket.ssh
** Message: NumLock remembering disabled because hostname is set to "localhost"
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1650): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot
register existing type `_PolkitError'
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1650): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
Failed to play sound: File or data not found
X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private resource
denied)
  Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
  Serial number of failed request:  7
  Current serial number in output stream:  8
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
(nautilus:1644): Nautilus-GDU-WARNING **: unable to query info: The specified
location is not supported
(nautilus:1644): Nautilus-GDU-WARNING **: unable to query info: The specified
location is not supported
(emacs:1967): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Don Stewart  wrote:
From: Don Stewart 
    Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager
    To: "michael rice" 
    Cc: xmonad@haskell.org
    Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 4:08 PM
First, you should take up this discussion on the xmonad@haskell.org list?
    (CC'd)
Secondly, assuming you've installed xmonad from Fedora, it's not clear
    what is wrong with your set up. What error are you getting exactly?
-- Don
nowgate:
    > Well, for starters the Fedora entry for installing XMonad is blank/empty:
    > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Installing_xmonad#Fedora
    >
    > Some things I've done:
    >
    > I set up a .xmonad directory in my home directory with this xmonad.hs
    >
    > [michael@localhost ~]$ cat ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
    >     --
    >     -- An example, simple ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file.
    >     -- It overrides a few basic settings, reusing all the other defaults.
    >     --
    >
    >     import XMonad
    >
    >     main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
    >         { borderWidth        = 2
    >         , terminal           = "urxvt"
    >         , normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc"
    >         , focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00" }
    >
    > [michael@localhost ~]$
    >
    > I set up a .xsession directory in my home directory with this in it
    >
    > [michael@localhost ~]$ cat .xsession
    > export WINDOW_MANAGER="/usr/bin/xmonad"
    > exec gnome-session
    >
    > [michael@localhost ~]$
    >
    > Because supposedly X doesn't even check .xsession file without having
    > xorg-x11-xinit-session installed, I also downloaded that.
    >
    > I set up a XMonad.desktop file in /usr/share/applications directory
    >
    > [michael@localhost ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/Xmonad.desktop
    > [Desktop Entry]
    > Type=Application
    > Encoding=UTF-8
    > Name=Xmonad
    > # change this path according to your xmonad binary
    > Exec=/usr/bin/xmonad
    > NoDisplay=true
    > X-GNOME-WMName=Xmonad
    > X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=XMonad
    > X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=xmonad
    > X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
    > X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
    > X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
    > X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
    > [michael@localhost ~]$
    >
    > I added /usr/bin/xmonad to startup applications.
    >
    > All these things were suggested.
    >
    > Michael
    >
    > --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Don Stewart  wrote:
    >
    >
    >     From: Don Stewart 
    >     Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager
    >     To: "michael rice" 
    >     Cc: "Ivan Lazar Miljenovic" ,
    >     haskell-cafe@haskell.org
    >     Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 3:30 PM
    >
    >     nowgate:
    >     > I'd already found a lot of these links and tried some of their
    >     suggestions,
    >     > without any success. Does anyone who posts here actually use it
    (what
    >     > platform)?
    >
    >     What's the problem exactly?
    >
    >     -- Don
    >
    >