[xmonad] Gnome3 and xmonad

Jan jan.h.xie at gmail.com
Fri May 13 10:25:03 CEST 2011


On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jan <jan.h.xie at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's scary looking.
>>
>> I wonder if xmonad is in your $PATH?
>>
>> My xmonad.desktop:
>>
>> [Desktop Entry]
>> Type=Application
>> Encoding=UTF-8
>> Name=xmonad
>> Exec=xmonad
>> NoDisplay=true
>> X-GNOME-WMName=xmonad
>> X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
>> X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
>> X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=false
>>
>> And I export `xmonad` at startup:
>>
>> PATH=/home/dons/.xmonad:/home/dons/bin:$PATH
>> export PATH
>> gnome-session --session=xmonad
>>
>> Double check xmonad is in your path?
>>
>
> Yes I'm sure it's in the path. When it's not in the path the error is
> different (I tried removing xmonad from my PATH). In my case, xmonad is
> started in the few seconds after gdm login (I can use all my xmonad key
> bindings during that time), after that period gnome give a popup window says
> login failed, then I can do nothing except logout.
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>

I don't know where the problem is but after I rewrite my xmond.hs by using
XMonad.Config.Gnome, xmonad and gnome become friends again! :-)

Thanks,
Jan


>
>> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Jan <jan.h.xie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Wirt Wolff <wirtwolff at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Sun May 08 01:42:40 -0600
>> 2011:
>> >> > On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 10:21:54AM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
>> >> > > On 6 May 2011 19:34, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> >> > > > Thanks for this, I'll try it out later today.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Sure :) - if you want to have a closer look
>> >> > > at the fedora package it is here:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=xmonad.git
>> >> >
>> >> > It worked beautifully: http://therning.org/magnus/archives/93
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Magnus' URL got truncated. It's at:
>> >>
>> >> http://therning.org/magnus/archives/938
>> >>
>> >> Adding to the 'Using xmonad with Gnome' wiki page.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the info!
>> >
>> > I'm using arch but failed to start xmonad session after  following the
>> > steps, here's what I got in .xsession-error:
>> >
>> > gnome-session[14730]: WARNING: Application 'xmonad.desktop' failed to
>> > register before timeout
>> > gnome-session[14730]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start
>> > application: Failed to execute child process "if" (No such file or
>> > directory)
>> > Failed to play sound: File or data not found
>> >
>> > MCS->Xfconf settings migration complete
>> >
>> > Failure: Module initalization failed
>> > ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
>> > ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
>> >
>> > (Do:14839): libdo-WARNING **: Binding '<Super>space' failed!
>> >
>> > Could not read Gnome Bookmarks file /home/test/.gtk-bookmarks: Could not
>> > find file "/home/test/.gtk-bookmarks".
>> >
>> > (gnome-settings-daemon:14766): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref:
>> > assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>> > ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
>> > XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server
>> ":0"
>> >       after 1370 requests (1370 known processed) with 1 events
>> remaining.
>> > urxvt: X connection to ':0' broken, unable to recover, exiting.
>> >
>> > (gnome-screensaver:14816): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO
>> error
>> > 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
>> >
>> >
>> > (nm-applet:14828): Gdk-WARNING **: nm-applet: Fatal IO error 11
>> (Resource
>> > temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
>> >
>> >
>> > (evolution-alarm-notify:14822): Gdk-WARNING **: evolution-alarm-notify:
>> > Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
>> >
>> >
>> > (notification-daemon:14821): Gdk-WARNING **: notification-daemon: Fatal
>> IO
>> > error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
>> >
>> > Do: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
>> >
>> > (gdu-notification-daemon:14832): Gdk-WARNING **:
>> gdu-notification-daemon:
>> > Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
>> >
>> > applet.py: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X
>> server
>> > :0.
>> >
>> > (ibus-daemon:14819): IBUS-CRITICAL **: 12:14:05.779946: ibus_proxy_call:
>> > assertion `priv->connection' failed
>> >
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jan
>> >
>> >
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