Another way to start Xmonad in Gnome

2009-02-21 - Magnus Therning

I stumbled on this email thread on starting Xmonad in Fedora 10. In anticipation of Gnome 2.24 being installable from Debian Experimental I dropped the following into /usr/share/applications/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=true

and modified the GConf key /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current to hold the value /usr/bin/xmonad. Last but not least I removed my ~/.gnomerc. Log out, log in. Enjoy!

Yes, this is mentioned on the Xmonad wiki, though with slightly less details. I’ll hold off updating the page until I have Gnome 2.24 on my desktop.