[xmonad] xmonad on ubuntu desktop environment

[Brandon Allbery]

This has less to do with xmonad than with your display manager session; an
xmonad session will be xmonad itself, not all the stuff that comes with
Gnome. And simply using a Gnome compatibility config won't cause Ubuntu
login to start a Gnome session with xmonad for you.

This is complicated by Gnome 3 being incompatible with alternative window
managers; most of its functionality is in gnome-shell, including the window
manager component, and you can't replace the window manager without
ditching gnome-shell entirely. The Gnome developers have no intention of
changing this. You may be able to run gnome-panel standalone without it
trying to start gnome-shell, but you have to do that separately. It's
easier to do this with more component-oriented desktops like MATE and XFCE.

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:31 PM Steve Quezadas <steve at thestever.net> wrote:

> Hello, I got a new computer and install ubuntu to 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).
> When i login through xmonad, my ubuntu desktop environment disappears,
> it's all black. No wallpaper, no tray, no nothing. My xmonad.hs file is
> as follows:
>  > import XMonad
>  > import XMonad.Config.Desktop
>  >
>  > baseConfig = desktopConfig
>  >
>  > main = xmonad baseConfig
>  >    { modMask = mod4Mask }
>
> This config file worked with my previous version of ubuntu and now just
> loads a black screen. I can get into my terminal window by doing a
> mod-shift-enter and that's how I get around, but I would like to get
> back into the ubuntu tray (mod-p, for instance).
>
> I tried an alternative configuration on one of the wiki's to no avail.
>  > import XMonad import
>  > XMonad.Config.Gnome
>  >
>  > main = xmonad gnomeConfig
>
> Tried googling, checking the wiki's and going through the documentation
> to no avail.
>
> I am thinking maybe there's some error on the logs or something that I
> can check. or is there something that I'm doing that is obviously wrong?
>
> - Steve
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