[xmonad] Still trying to get Gnome + Xmonad Working

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 29.03.2008, 10:38 -0400 schrieb Jevin Maltais:
> Hi guys!
> I'm building from darcs as I'd like to play around with extending EWMH
> to work with the workspace panel applet.  The issue is that all the
> windows seem to pile on top of each other on the top left corner.
> I've tried using the defaultGaps setting just to see if xmonad will
> shift itself down below the gnome-panel but it doesn't.  It stays
> overtop of it.  Initally: .gnomerc was set to exec /usr/bin/xmonad,
> but since I'm building from darcs in my home dir, I believe it should
> be ~/jevin/.xmonad/xmonad.  So it seems that xmonad doesn't seem to be
> using the config (based on defaultGaps not working) where should it be
> pointed to?
> 
> Anyways, any pointers are appreciated:
> darcs is built in ~/darcs/xmonad
> 
> .gnomerc:
> export WINDOW_MANAGER=~/.xmonad/xmonad
> 
> xmonad.hs:
> import XMonad
> import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
> import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops
> 
> myLogHook :: X ()
> myLogHook = do ewmhDesktopsLogHook
>                return ()
> 
> main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
>                 { borderWidth      = 2
>                 , manageHook       = manageDocks
>                 , workspaces       = map show [1 .. 5 :: Int]
>                 , logHook          = myLogHook
>                 , layoutHook       = avoidStruts (tall ||| Mirror tall ||| Full)
>                 }
>               where tall = Tall 1 (3/100) (1/2)

I have a more or less similar xmonad config, and the panel works just
fine here – not sure where your problem might be. Is metacity still
running?

Greetings,
Joachim

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