Issue 185: XMonad.Config.Gnome http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=185 Comment #4 by nomeata:

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setting terminal to gnome-terminal or konsole That works magically for me, without setting anything, on my Debian KDE system. I don't know why.

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