Comments on: Xmonad and Gnome 3

By: Anshuman Bhaduri

Anshuman Bhaduri — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:57:53 +0000

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.

By: Anshuman Bhaduri

Anshuman Bhaduri — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:27:13 +0000

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

By: David

David — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:05:34 +0000

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

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:48:00 +0000

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.

By: emchristiansen

emchristiansen — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:21:42 +0000

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.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:51:08 +0000

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.

By: pconwell

pconwell — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:55:27 +0000

Ditto:

failed to load session "xmonad"

By: Vladimir Gordeev

Vladimir Gordeev — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:19:12 +0000

“failed to load xmonad session”

same problem.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:35:00 +0000

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

Thank you.

By: Tayfur Yilmaz

Tayfur Yilmaz — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:05:32 +0000

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

By: dixie

dixie — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:39:52 +0000

thanks!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:01:50 +0000

Hey Magnus

Had the same problem. Thanks for sharing the fix!