Re: [xmonad] Ditching Gnome

Hi, 1) There is a software called trayer. It's a leightwight GTK+ based systray. Easy to use :) Just install and start it with the options you need (see manpage). 2) Well, it will be in trayer. Is that a problem?! 3) How can you launch applications there?! There is a tool called dmenu. If you start that, you can type in the begging of a command and it will show you all applications in the path which match. 4) I don't know if that is possible. Never needed it so I've never searched for it. I think that is useless as hell o0 5+6) xmobar. You can put date, time and some system statistics in it. If you find a CLI tool which reports the whether to the stdout you can even put the wether to xmobar :) Felix On 11. February 2011 - 17:17, Eyal Erez wrote:

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:17:10 -0500 From: Eyal Erez To: xmonad Subject: [xmonad] Ditching Gnome

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.

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