[Xmonad] Re: How to combine xmonad with Ubuntu?

[brad clawsie]

as an obvious aside, its trivial to query the battery status, every 
modern os should have an acpi query tool

on freebsd: sysctl hw.acpi.battery

i place my own status indicator into gnu screen

i don't know that much about the advanced features of xmonad as i do
not use them, but, if there is a simple way to pipe output from a user
command to some area of the screen (dmenu?), you might find this
easier than messing with gnome-session