[xmonad] Gnome3 and xmonad

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 09:13, Jens Petersen <juhp at community.haskell.org> wrote:
> On 1 May 2011 17:46, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> Gnome3 just hit my distribution and after the upgrade from Gnome2 I no
>> longer get xmonad on login :(
>
> What distro are you using btw?

ArchLinux

>> There are many things I like about Gnome3 and the shell, but I've
>> gotten really used to xmonad, manipulating windows via the keyboard,
>> and most importantly I love the tiling window placement.
>>
>> I can't seem to find any description of using xmonad with Gnome3, is
>> there any?
>
> I did this recently for Fedora 15 (also for bluetile)
> which will ship shortly with GNOME3.
>
> Short summary story:
>
> 1. create a xmonad.session file for gnome-session
>   to live in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions iirc
> 2. run: gnome-session --session=xmonad
> 3. (Better create an xsession file to do 2.)
>
> The fedora 15 packages of xmonad and bluetile
> already have the above and should just work: you can
> just select "xmonad GNOME" (or "GNOME + bluetile")
> from gdm.

Thanks for this, I'll try it out later today.

/M

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