Re: [xmonad] Xmonad 0.5 + Gnome

I started on an xmonad 0.5 + gnome. Open to feedback. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome On Jan 3, 2008 5:53 PM, Jevin Maltais wrote:

I would be happy to write the update. The only issue is that I still don't have it working properly! I seems like something is taking over the desktop. Anything launched with dmenu flashes onto the screen but disappears. I can see it in Gnome's workspace thumbnail but not on the screen. If I change to workspace two or three, I can control windows no problems. Really weird. Any ideas?

I have basically done the configs specified for both EwmhDesktops and ManageDocks.

Again, I get this working, I will make a patch (or a wiki page?) for the xmonad.org/gnome.html.

Cheers, Jevin

On Jan 3, 2008 2:40 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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allbery:

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On Dec 29, 2007, at 23:47 , Jevin Maltais wrote:

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So I'd like to be Xmonad to replace metacity in gnome. I've read (and tried) the instructions over at: http://xmonad.org/gnome.html which is a great write-up. Unfortunately however, I just can't get it to fly with gnome.

setting WINDOW_MANGER="/home/jevin/bin/xmonad" gets me gnome + xmonad but the gnome-panel is why weird on workspace 1 and simply does not appear on the other workspaces. Attached is the result.

The instructions are out of date; use the EwmhDesktops extension if you want to run a panel or dock, whether Gnome, KDE, or standalone. (defaultGaps and the manageHook were a bit of a hack and broke if e.g. the panel tried to display a dialog box; EwmhDesktops does it correctly.)

Can someone familiar with gnome either update that document, or move its contents to the wiki, so it can be updated by others, then?

-- Don

-- Jevin Maltais [jevin@techie.com] http://jevy.org

-- Jevin Maltais [jevin@techie.com] http://jevy.org