[Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager

[michael rice]

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 at 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 at localhost ~]$ 

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

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

[michael at 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 at 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 at localhost ~]$ 

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

All these things were suggested.

Michael

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:

From: Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager
To: "michael rice" <nowgate at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Ivan Lazar Miljenovic" <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>, haskell-cafe at 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



      
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