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> I haven't tried using xmonad with the ubuntu panel and stuff, so I don't know about that.

Use XMonad.Config.Gnome.gnomeConfig as your base config. Log in with gnome as normal and do:

    pkill metacity
    pkill compiz
    sleep 3
    xmonad &

Not the most elegant solution, but it works.

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That worked with Gnome 2, but I'm not sure how well that will work with Gnome 3 and/or Unity. Unity is pretty tied to Compiz (some portion of it is implemented as a Compiz plugin).

At this point, it's probably easier to either create your own session script to start up the parts of Gnome that you want along with XMonad (e.g. gnome-screensaver, gnome-power-manager, etc) or to see about using XMonad as the window manager for XFCE.

Also, you used to be able to set the $WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable in ~/.gnomerc, to turn on XMonad as the window manager.

> ...create your own session script to start up the parts of Gnome that you want along with XMonad...

On Ubuntu at least I've had success with http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/

(Having the launcher floating around is annoying though, and removing it from the gnome-session file had some unpleasant side-effect that I don't remember.)

Can't you just select the session you want from gdm? Or did ubuntu take away that picker menu?

The default xmonad session just launches xmonad. Usually people want other things like pulse-audio, a power manager (like gnome-power-manager), etc launched.

This is why people want to use XMonad as Gnome's window manager.

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