[xmonad] Fedora 10, Gnome and Xmonad

[Yaakov Nemoy]

2008/12/17 Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com>:
> 2008/12/17 Daniel Spoonhower <spoons at cmu.edu>:
>> I have also had problems using Xmonad with Gnome 2.23 and 2.24 (the
>> version I believe is in Fedora 10) on my Gentoo system.
>>
>> In 2.23, I had things working as I wrote on a talk page on the wiki:
>> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Talk:Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome
>> Which referenced the following post from a compiz user:
>> http://www.nabble.com/-Cooker--Gnome-2.23-and-compiz-fusion-td18330823.html
>>
>> When I upgraded to 2.24, metacity came up as the default WM.  I haven't
>> had time to fix it yet, but I'll post something when I do (if no one
>> else gets there first).  Anyway, I just want to say that you're not the
>> only ones with Gnome issues.
>
> I have a preliminary fix.
>
> I made a ~/.xsession file that has two lines:
>
> exec xmonad &
> exec gnome-session
>
> I also removed 'windowmanager' from
> /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list in gconf.
>
> Finally, in Fedora, i installed a package that lets you use your
> ~/.xsession as a session file in GDM, but since you're using Gentoo,
> your mileage may vary.
>
> So far:
>
> 1) xmonad loads, and seems stable, i'm going to have to let it run for
> a longer time to make sure it doesn't crash
> 2) Pulseaudio didn't load, i'm going to have to debug that
> 3) Once i figure all that out, i'll make an xmonad-gnome-session
> script that will do all that, and that will probably end up being the
> Fedora way of loading xmonad as a WM.
>
> -Yaakov
>

This got sent to a private mail, not to the group, resending:

I have a preliminary fix.

I made a ~/.xsession file that has two lines:

exec xmonad &
exec gnome-session

I also removed 'windowmanager' from
/desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list in gconf.

Finally, in Fedora, i installed a package that lets you use your
~/.xsession as a session file in GDM, but since you're using Gentoo,
your mileage may vary.

So far:

1) xmonad loads, and seems stable, i'm going to have to let it run for
a longer time to make sure it doesn't crash
2) Nautilus and other apps load from spawn actions.
3) Pulseaudio didn't load, i'm going to have to debug that
4) Once i figure all that out, i'll make an xmonad-gnome-session
script that will do all that, and that will probably end up being the
Fedora way of loading xmonad as a WM.

-Yaakov