This has less to do with xmonad than with your display manager session; an
xmonad session will be xmonad itself, not all the stuff that comes with
Gnome. And simply using a Gnome compatibility config won't cause Ubuntu
login to start a Gnome session with xmonad for you.
This is complicated by Gnome 3 being incompatible with alternative window
managers; most of its functionality is in gnome-shell, including the window
manager component, and you can't replace the window manager without
ditching gnome-shell entirely. The Gnome developers have no intention of
changing this. You may be able to run gnome-panel standalone without it
trying to start gnome-shell, but you have to do that separately. It's
easier to do this with more component-oriented desktops like MATE and XFCE.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:31 PM Steve Quezadas
Hello, I got a new computer and install ubuntu to 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). When i login through xmonad, my ubuntu desktop environment disappears, it's all black. No wallpaper, no tray, no nothing. My xmonad.hs file is as follows:
import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Desktop
baseConfig = desktopConfig
main = xmonad baseConfig { modMask = mod4Mask }
This config file worked with my previous version of ubuntu and now just loads a black screen. I can get into my terminal window by doing a mod-shift-enter and that's how I get around, but I would like to get back into the ubuntu tray (mod-p, for instance).
I tried an alternative configuration on one of the wiki's to no avail.
import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome
main = xmonad gnomeConfig
Tried googling, checking the wiki's and going through the documentation to no avail.
I am thinking maybe there's some error on the logs or something that I can check. or is there something that I'm doing that is obviously wrong?
- Steve _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad
-- brandon s allbery kf8nh allbery.b@gmail.com