allbery:

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The instructions are out of date; use the EwmhDesktops extension if you want to run a panel or dock, whether Gnome, KDE, or standalone.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

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:

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The instructions are out of date; use the EwmhDesktops extension if you want to run a panel or dock, whether Gnome, KDE, or standalone.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

Is this in a good enough state to redirect the link from xmonad.org to? Perhaps add the images inline used in the original article? jevin:

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:

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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:

...

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

On Jan 6, 2008 10:46 PM, Jevin Maltais wrote:

We could redirect the link from the main site but I'd like feedback from those actually using gnome right now! Chime in peoples! What's your config? What issues did you experience when you were trying to get gnome + xmonad setup?

That's pretty much what I did. If I didn't know any better, i would say some of that was taken from my config in the config archive. +1 for Issue specific recipes. -Yaakov