Hi Alexander, latest xmonad is version is 0.12 which was released quite a while ago, it's strange Mint didn't pick the latest. Can you try installing xmonad-contrib as follows? I found this in here: http://xmonad.org/intro.html cabal install xmonad-contrib --flags="-use_xft" If that fails.. try to install X11 with cabal and not with apt-get (cabal install X11 --flags="-use_xft"). I would recommend compiling xmonad from source with cabal to get xmonad 0.12, you need darcs for that (just execute "cabal install darcs"). Then you would use darcs to get the sources like this: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/xmonad darcs get http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib When you want to compile the downloaded sources, you just execute "cabal install" inside each of the folders (first xmonad and then XMonadContrib). I also tried to run xmonad with Cinnamon once but they have their own window manager, it seems it's coupled with the desktop environment. I asked if there were efforts to separate the WM like a year ago but got no response from the authors. 2015-03-01 8:45 GMT-06:00 Alexander Genaud :

Thanks for all the suggestions. Having had great success with Gnome2-fallback in the past, I decided to try Mate out again with the latest xmonad-contrib (is that what everyone means by latest xmonad from darcs?).

I started with a fresh install of Linux Mint 17.1 with Mate, updated, etc. I installed xmonad and cabal-install. I was not able to install xmonad-contrib (command line details below). Any suggestions?

Additionally, I have the most basic xmonad.hs file, yet cannot re-compile (Could not find package 'XMonad'). The xmonad-contrib is not available via Mint's apt-get.

Mint's xmonad.desktop file is nearly identical to the config described here: https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_MATE . However, the dconf suggestion does not work. Selecting 'Xmonad' from the GUI Login displays the GHC/xmonad --recompile error again and otherwise presents a blank xmonad session. I have no terminal, probably because I cannot compile 'terminal = "mate-terminal"' in xmonad.hs. Alt-Shift-Q works: logout. Selecting 'gnome-xmonad.desktop' is equally useless (though technically working).

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Sorry, but could you describe exactly what are the problems you encountered?

With XFCE, I was able to get a semi-working system from a freshly installed Xubuntu. In a vanilla XFCE session, 'xmonad --replace' from the command line seems to work. But I could not start a fresh session with Xmonad. At best, the panel would not display (although it was running) and there would be a blank/transparent tile. I removed most Mate keyboard shortcuts, yet Meta-Shift-Return only sometimes opened a terminal.

I was not able to get Cinnamon to work at all -- I don't recall the specific issues.

I don't recall my earlier issues with Mint/Mate, but I've described several issues above and some command line details below.

# apt-get install xmonad cabal-install

# xmonad --version xmonad 0.11

# cabal --version cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library

# cabal install xmonad-contrib Resolving dependencies... Configuring X11-1.6.1.2... ...etc... checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h usability... no checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h presence... no checking for X11/extensions/Xinerama.h... no WARNING: Xinerama headers not found. Building without Xinerama support checking X11/extensions/Xrandr.h usability... no checking X11/extensions/Xrandr.h presence... no checking for X11/extensions/Xrandr.h... no configure: error: X11/extensions/Xrandr.h (from libXrandr) is required Failed to install X11-1.6.1.2 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: X11-1.6.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 X11-xft-0.3.1 depends on X11-1.6.1.2 which failed to install. xmonad-0.11 depends on X11-1.6.1.2 which failed to install. xmonad-contrib-0.11.3 depends on X11-1.6.1.2 which failed to install.

The following did not help # apt-get install xorg xinerama, libXrandr, X11-utils, etc

# Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.15.1 Release Date: 2014-04-13

$ cat xmonad.hs import XMonad main = xmonad defaultConfig { modMask = mod4Mask }

$ xmonad --recompile; cat xmonad.errors xmonad.hs:1:8 Could not find module 'XMonad' ... etc ...

# apt-get install dconf-cli $ dconf read /org/mate/session/required-components/windowmanager (nothing)

$ dconf write /org/mate/session/required-components/windowmanager xmonad error: 0-6:unknown keyword

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