[xmonad] xmonad 0.9 on ubuntu 9.10

Tony Morris tonymorris at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 04:08:36 EST 2009


That's precisely what I did, but xmonad won't start itself. I have to
manually start it at a terminal.

Sven Hartenstein wrote:
> Hi Tony and others,
>
>   
>> I have managed to get xmonad running, however, I have to manually
>> start it rather than being used as the default WM. Setting
>> .~/.gnomerc doesn't make a difference.
>>
>> Any tips in this regard? So close!
>>     
>
> Configuring gnome to use xmonad as WM worked for me (Ubuntu 9.10)
> without problems by running
>
>   gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager xmonad --type string
>
> as suggested on http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gnome
>
> Sven
>
>   

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Tony Morris
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