This Ubuntu package contains session files for Gnome + XMonad. The latest xmonad package in Debian/Ubuntu no longer has working session files, so I'm maintaining them in this repository. The sessions are simply copies of metacity-based sessions from gnome-session-flashback/gnome-session-fallback packages with metacity replaced with xmonad.
Replacing metacity with xmonad seems to keep everything happy, and based on my testing everything including volume keys works fine.
For ready-to-use binary packages, see my PPA here, or check out the quick installation guide below:
https://launchpad.net/~gekkio/+archive/ubuntu/xmonad
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gekkio/xmonad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-xmonad
This installs the GNOME + XMonad session, which can be selected from the login screen. Make sure you select the right one, because the list probably has other xmonad sessions as well.
These xmonad sessions are unrelated to this package, and are not guaranteed to work:
- GNOME Flashback (Xmonad)
- XMonad
Your xmonad configuration must have the necessary gnome hooks in place.
In practice things work perfectly if you are using gnomeConfig properly in
your configuration.
Like the Quick Installation above, except we avoid bringing in Ubuntu's GHC ecosystem:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gekkio/xmonad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-session-xmonad
To be able to compile your ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs, you'll probably also want
to install the X11 packages specified in the
Xmonad README:
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev libxrandr-dev libxss-dev
This minimal installation assumes you already have GHC installed by some non-Apt means, e.g. via Stack or a http://haskell.org/ghc tarball.
These Ubuntu versions are supported at the moment:
- 18.04 Bionic (LTS)
- 20.04 Focal (LTS)
- 20.10 Groovy
- 21.04 Hirsute