First, you should take up this discussion on the xmonad@haskell.org list? (CC'd) Secondly, assuming you've installed xmonad from Fedora, it's not clear what is wrong with your set up. What error are you getting exactly? -- Don nowgate:

Well, for starters the Fedora entry for installing XMonad is blank/empty: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Installing_xmonad#Fedora

Some things I've done:

I set up a .xmonad directory in my home directory with this xmonad.hs

[michael@localhost ~]$ cat ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs -- -- An example, simple ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file. -- It overrides a few basic settings, reusing all the other defaults. --

import XMonad

main = xmonad $ defaultConfig { borderWidth = 2 , terminal = "urxvt" , normalBorderColor = "#cccccc" , focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00" }

[michael@localhost ~]$

I set up a .xsession directory in my home directory with this in it

[michael@localhost ~]$ cat .xsession export WINDOW_MANAGER="/usr/bin/xmonad" exec gnome-session

[michael@localhost ~]$

Because supposedly X doesn't even check .xsession file without having xorg-x11-xinit-session installed, I also downloaded that.

I set up a XMonad.desktop file in /usr/share/applications directory

[michael@localhost ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/Xmonad.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Xmonad # change this path according to your xmonad binary Exec=/usr/bin/xmonad NoDisplay=true X-GNOME-WMName=Xmonad X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=XMonad X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=xmonad X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true [michael@localhost ~]$

I added /usr/bin/xmonad to startup applications.

All these things were suggested.

Michael

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Don Stewart wrote:

From: Don Stewart Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager To: "michael rice" Cc: "Ivan Lazar Miljenovic" , haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 3:30 PM

nowgate: > I'd already found a lot of these links and tried some of their suggestions, > without any success. Does anyone who posts here actually use it (what > platform)?

What's the problem exactly?

-- Don