xmonad on ubuntu desktop environment
Hello, I got a new computer and install ubuntu to 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). When i login through xmonad, my ubuntu desktop environment disappears, it's all black. No wallpaper, no tray, no nothing. My xmonad.hs file is as follows:
import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Desktop
baseConfig = desktopConfig
main = xmonad baseConfig { modMask = mod4Mask }
This config file worked with my previous version of ubuntu and now just loads a black screen. I can get into my terminal window by doing a mod-shift-enter and that's how I get around, but I would like to get back into the ubuntu tray (mod-p, for instance). I tried an alternative configuration on one of the wiki's to no avail.
import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome
main = xmonad gnomeConfig
Tried googling, checking the wiki's and going through the documentation to no avail. I am thinking maybe there's some error on the logs or something that I can check. or is there something that I'm doing that is obviously wrong? - Steve
This has less to do with xmonad than with your display manager session; an
xmonad session will be xmonad itself, not all the stuff that comes with
Gnome. And simply using a Gnome compatibility config won't cause Ubuntu
login to start a Gnome session with xmonad for you.
This is complicated by Gnome 3 being incompatible with alternative window
managers; most of its functionality is in gnome-shell, including the window
manager component, and you can't replace the window manager without
ditching gnome-shell entirely. The Gnome developers have no intention of
changing this. You may be able to run gnome-panel standalone without it
trying to start gnome-shell, but you have to do that separately. It's
easier to do this with more component-oriented desktops like MATE and XFCE.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:31 PM Steve Quezadas
Hello, I got a new computer and install ubuntu to 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). When i login through xmonad, my ubuntu desktop environment disappears, it's all black. No wallpaper, no tray, no nothing. My xmonad.hs file is as follows:
import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Desktop
baseConfig = desktopConfig
main = xmonad baseConfig { modMask = mod4Mask }
This config file worked with my previous version of ubuntu and now just loads a black screen. I can get into my terminal window by doing a mod-shift-enter and that's how I get around, but I would like to get back into the ubuntu tray (mod-p, for instance).
I tried an alternative configuration on one of the wiki's to no avail.
import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome
main = xmonad gnomeConfig
Tried googling, checking the wiki's and going through the documentation to no avail.
I am thinking maybe there's some error on the logs or something that I can check. or is there something that I'm doing that is obviously wrong?
- Steve _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmonad
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Steve writes:
Hello, I got a new computer and install ubuntu to 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). When i login through xmonad, my ubuntu desktop environment disappears, it's all black. No wallpaper, no tray, no nothing.
What happens if you choose the "GNOME Flashback (Xmonad)" session when logging in, instead of the "XMonad" session? The xmonad package in Ubuntu includes two xsessions, one with xmonad only and one with "GNOME Flashback" (which I guess means fallback) and xmonad: · https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/xmonad/filelist Best regards, Adam -- "Och när jag blundar hörs din röst Adam Sjøgren Jag kan inte se ditt ansikte asjo@koldfront.dk Det var det jag glömde först"
"Flashback" is someone forking and maintaining the old "fallback" package,
which was discontinued upstream after Gnome 3.6. It's actually Gnome 2
underneath; Gnome 3 has never supported alternative window managers
directly, "gnome-fallback" instead forced a Gnome 3-like theme onto Gnome 2.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 2:35 PM Adam Sjøgren
Steve writes:
Hello, I got a new computer and install ubuntu to 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). When i login through xmonad, my ubuntu desktop environment disappears, it's all black. No wallpaper, no tray, no nothing.
What happens if you choose the "GNOME Flashback (Xmonad)" session when logging in, instead of the "XMonad" session?
The xmonad package in Ubuntu includes two xsessions, one with xmonad only and one with "GNOME Flashback" (which I guess means fallback) and xmonad:
· https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/xmonad/filelist
Best regards,
Adam
-- "Och när jag blundar hörs din röst Adam Sjøgren Jag kan inte se ditt ansikte asjo@koldfront.dk Det var det jag glömde först"
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