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12 Comments

1. Jacob says:

   2011-05-12 at 12:01

   Hey Magnus

   Had the same problem. Thanks for sharing the fix!
2. dixie says:

   2011-05-12 at 21:39

   thanks!
3. Tayfur Yilmaz says:

   2011-05-31 at 15:05

   Thanks for notes I want to use Xmonad+Gnome3 on Pardus and I edit this changes on my system and on Login Screen I choose Xmonad+Gnome and I want to login but this message shown to screen.

   “failed to load xmonad session”

   How to solve this problem?

   Best Regars
4. Bruno says:

   2011-09-01 at 02:35

   Hello, How does it render? Could you maybe share a screenshot?

   Thank you.
5. Vladimir Gordeev says:

   2011-10-05 at 18:19

   “failed to load xmonad session”

   same problem.
6. pconwell says:

   2011-10-09 at 07:55

   Ditto:

   failed to load session "xmonad"
   
7. Magnus says:

   2011-10-09 at 08:51

   I’ve actually stopped using Xmonad since I wrote this. Soon after Gnome 3 was released I started looking around for alternatives to Gnome in the Gnome+Xmonad combo. Nothing seemed to really suit me though so I decided to give the Gnome Shell a serious chance instead. I’ve gotten to the point where it’s very usable and hence I don’t use the setup I describe in this post myself.
8. emchristiansen says:

   2011-10-17 at 07:21

   Oddly, this worked on one of my Ubuntu 11.10 machines but not the other. The error I’m getting on the other is ‘Failed to load session “xmonad”‘, and I can’t figure out the difference between the machines.
9. Alex says:

   2011-10-17 at 08:48

   I was having the [failed to load session "xmonad"] issue. I fixed it by running “sudo apt-get install gnome-panel” and modifying the xmonad.session file as follows:

   /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/xmonad.session [GNOME Session] Name=Xmonad session RequiredComponents=gnome-panel;gnome-settings-daemon; RequiredProviders=windowmanager DefaultProvider-windowmanager=xmonad

   I tried using Gnome 3, but it’s a little clunky for my computer and xmonad makes using workspaces a zillion times more efficient.
10. David says:

    2011-10-17 at 18:05

    I was getting failed to load session "xmonad" because I did not have the notification-daemon installed. To install the notification-daemon on Ubuntu 11.10 I used:

    sudo apt-get install notification-daemon
    
11. Anshuman Bhaduri says:

    2011-12-08 at 09:27

    Like it says on the Xmonad GNOME wiki page, I also needed the applications/xmonad.desktop file. This made the failed to load session "xmonad" message disappear, however I’m still trying to get stuff to work just right.

    $ cat /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=false
    
12. Anshuman Bhaduri says:

    2011-12-08 at 09:57

    Ah yup, the Arch Linux wiki also states the same thing that I mentioned in my previous comment. Also, as mentioned in the Xmonad wiki, I had to have my ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs config as

    import XMonad
    import XMonad.Config.Gnome
    
    main = xmonad gnomeConfig
    

    (this requires the xmonad-contrib package on Arch Linux). Now GNOME panel shows up just fine, along with a list of workspaces. I guess it shouldn’t be too hard from here.