= From GDM =
xmonad can be started from GDM, by selecting "xmonad" or "xmonad GNOME"
from the session menu.
= xmonad-start =
By default at startup Fedora's xmonad-start displays
"man xmonad" in an xterm to help newcomers and to encourage
configuring xmonad by creating "~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs".
To stop this behaviour, just create "~/.xmonad/".
== Simple Desktop configuration ==
The default xmonad configuration does not work well with desktop environments.
The following basic generic configuration requires ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel
to be installed, and should get it working:
$ mkdir ~/.xmonad
$ cat > ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs << EOF
import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Desktop
main = xmonad desktopConfig
EOF
$
You can replace the generic "[Dd]esktop" by:
- "[Gg]nome" for better GNOME support
- "[Kk]de[4]" for KDE support
- "[Xx]fce" for XFCE support.
See:
- http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/latest/doc/html/XMonad-Config-Desktop.html
- http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Basic_Desktop_Environment_Integration
for more info on how to setup desktop support.
= How to configure =
For documentation and examples see:
- xmonad man-page
- /usr/share/doc/xmonad-$version/xmonad.hs (full default basic configuration)
- /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-contrib-$version/index.html
and online:
- Xmonad wiki: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad
- http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/latest/doc/html/XMonad-Doc.html
(detailed configuration information and examples)
- http://xmonad.org/ website
To make use of extensions and Desktop Environment support,
you need to install ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel.
= Bluetile =
New users may find the Bluetile window manager built on top of
xmonad-contrib a gentler introduction to xmonad and tiling.
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