[xmonad] Ditching Gnome

[Felix Blanke]

Hi,

1) There is a software called trayer. It's a leightwight GTK+ based systray. Easy to
use :) Just install and start it with the options you need (see manpage).

2) Well, it will be in trayer. Is that a problem?!

3) How can you launch applications there?! There is a tool called dmenu. If you start
that, you can type in the begging of a command and it will show you all applications
in the path which match. 

4) I don't know if that is possible. Never needed it so I've never searched for it. I
think that is useless as hell o0

5+6) xmobar. You can put date, time and some system statistics in it. If you find a
CLI tool which reports the whether to the stdout you can even put the wether to
xmobar :)


Felix


On 11. February 2011 - 17:17, Eyal Erez wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:17:10 -0500
> From: Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com>
> To: xmonad <xmonad at haskell.org>
> Subject: [xmonad] Ditching Gnome
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using xmonad on top of gnome for some time now. I would really like
> to drop gnome, and use xmonad straight up. However, gnome has a number of small
> but significant features that I need to find replacements for:
> 
> Must Have:
> 1. System tray: This is where many apps I use (e.g. Pidgin, Skype, Aqualung,
>    Dropbox, etc.) place icons so I can see some status about them, and sometimes
>    interact with them (though mostly just status).
> 2. Network: This also exists in the system tray but I separated it out because
>    it's really important.  This is the ability to see if I am connected or not,
>    and to be able to choose wifi networks to connect to.
> 3. gnome-do: I use this as an easy way to launch applications.  I don't use most
>    of the more complicated features like combining objects and verbs.
> 
> Nice to Have:
> 4. High-level view of all desktops and which apps are running on each.
> 5. Date, time, and whether.
> 6. System statistics.
> 
> I have tried both xmonbar and dzen2, but had a hard time getting all the
> features I needed to work.  I was hoping someone can point out what I can use to
> replace each of these, and throw in some good documentation to boot.
> 
> I would love to ditch Gnome.  Thanks for your help.
> 
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