Eyal Erez
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).
I used stalonetray for a while (I no longer have any apps which have a system tray icon, so I don't use it anymore).
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.
nm-applet should work with stalonetray.
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.
I use dmenu, but gmrun seems popular as well.
Nice to Have: 4. High-level view of all desktops and which apps are running on each.
Not sure how to get this. GridSelect works well for me (though doesn't show where each app is).
5. Date, time, and whether. 6. System statistics.
xmobar can do these wonderfully.
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.
My configuration repository is here[1]. Look under dotfiles/base/X11. --Ben [1]http://git.benboeckel.net/?p=dotfiles.git;a=tree