2008/12/17 Yaakov Nemoy :

2008/12/17 Yaakov Nemoy :

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2008/12/17 Daniel Spoonhower :

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I have also had problems using Xmonad with Gnome 2.23 and 2.24 (the version I believe is in Fedora 10) on my Gentoo system.

In 2.23, I had things working as I wrote on a talk page on the wiki: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Talk:Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome Which referenced the following post from a compiz user: http://www.nabble.com/-Cooker--Gnome-2.23-and-compiz-fusion-td18330823.html

When I upgraded to 2.24, metacity came up as the default WM. I haven't had time to fix it yet, but I'll post something when I do (if no one else gets there first). Anyway, I just want to say that you're not the only ones with Gnome issues.

I have a preliminary fix.

I made a ~/.xsession file that has two lines:

exec xmonad & exec gnome-session

I also removed 'windowmanager' from /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list in gconf.

Finally, in Fedora, i installed a package that lets you use your ~/.xsession as a session file in GDM, but since you're using Gentoo, your mileage may vary.

So far:

1) xmonad loads, and seems stable, i'm going to have to let it run for a longer time to make sure it doesn't crash 2) Pulseaudio didn't load, i'm going to have to debug that 3) Once i figure all that out, i'll make an xmonad-gnome-session script that will do all that, and that will probably end up being the Fedora way of loading xmonad as a WM.

-Yaakov

This got sent to a private mail, not to the group, resending:

I have a preliminary fix.

I made a ~/.xsession file that has two lines:

exec xmonad & exec gnome-session

I also removed 'windowmanager' from /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list in gconf.

Finally, in Fedora, i installed a package that lets you use your ~/.xsession as a session file in GDM, but since you're using Gentoo, your mileage may vary.

So far:

1) xmonad loads, and seems stable, i'm going to have to let it run for a longer time to make sure it doesn't crash 2) Nautilus and other apps load from spawn actions. 3) Pulseaudio didn't load, i'm going to have to debug that 4) Once i figure all that out, i'll make an xmonad-gnome-session script that will do all that, and that will probably end up being the Fedora way of loading xmonad as a WM.

-Yaakov

The pulseaudio bug was something weird on my machine it appears. Xmonad's been running stable all day today. -Yaakov