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

[michael rice]

Perhaps. Is there a Linux distro that's more XMonad friendly?

Michael

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Having a look at XMonad window manager
To: "michael rice" <nowgate at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Don Stewart" <dons at galois.com>, haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 4:26 PM

Oh, is Fedora still using a version of GDM that doesn't let you use a
custom .Xsession (or even remember that you want to use something that
isn't called "Gnome")?

michael rice <nowgate at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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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