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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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.

ditto on dmenu. its awesome.

Nice to Have: 4. High-level view of all desktops and which apps are running on each.

you can set up the ability to jump to a window which is vaguely similar. http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt-Window.html

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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.

XMonad.Prompt.Shell

Nice to Have: 4. High-level view of all desktops and which apps are running on each.

XMonad.Actions.GridSelect might be of interest.

5. Date, time, and whether.

FWIW it's easy to script "telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com 3000" and get current weather.

6. System statistics.

Depending on the statistics it should be easy to pull stuff out of /proc (Linux) or sysctl (Linux, *BSD) and feed it to dzen2/xmobar. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery.b@gmail.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] kf8nh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1V63EACgkQIn7hlCsL25VB8ACffa/TfkNcWZjljBslmV9wZhwB cRMAoJisxdnHSf/dFXP3ziDGdAQWSrBX =BYPx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----