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

[Don Stewart]

Try disabling Nautilus.

nowgate:
> My latest .xsession-errors listing, after reboot:
> 
> GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-5vknhv/socket
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-5vknhv/socket.ssh
> ** Message: NumLock remembering disabled because hostname is set to "localhost"
> 
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1650): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot
> register existing type `_PolkitError'
> 
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1650): GLib-CRITICAL **:
> g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> Failed to play sound: File or data not found
> X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private resource
> denied)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
>   Serial number of failed request:  7
>   Current serial number in output stream:  8
> Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
> 
> (nautilus:1644): Nautilus-GDU-WARNING **: unable to query info: The specified
> location is not supported
> 
> 
> (nautilus:1644): Nautilus-GDU-WARNING **: unable to query info: The specified
> location is not supported
> 
> 
> (emacs:1967): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
> 
> 
> --- 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: xmonad at haskell.org
>     Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 4:08 PM
> 
>     First, you should take up this discussion on the xmonad at haskell.org list?
>     (CC'd)
> 
>     Secondly, assuming you've installed xmonad from Fedora, it's not clear
>     what is wrong with your set up. What error are you getting exactly?
> 
>     -- Don
> 
>     nowgate:
>     > 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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