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soupcan

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Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 268

Gnome 3 + Xmonad issues: Application 'xmonad.desktop' failed

Hi all, I've decided to switch from DE-less xmonad to xmonad and gnome. I installed Gnome and followed the instructions on these pages: here and here. If I choose Xmonad from the sessions list, I get the default background with no panels for a few seconds. After that, a message pops up that says "an error occurred, please log out" (pretty damn vague). I don't have this problem if I use mutter/gnome-shell.

~/.xsession-errors:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Failure: Module initalization failed
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session --session=xmonad
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-46stlc
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-46stlc/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-46stlc
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-46stlc/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-46stlc
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-46stlc/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-46stlc
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-46stlc/ssh
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-46stlc/gpg:0:1
gnome-session[9376]: WARNING: Application 'xmonad.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Failure: Module initalization failed
Failed to play sound: File or data not found

EDIT: Any suggestions for a better/more descriptive thread title?

Last edited by soupcan (2011-05-14 20:23:02)

therp

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Registered: 2009-02-06

Posts: 3

Re: Gnome 3 + Xmonad issues: Application 'xmonad.desktop' failed

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad … 11401.html

Use gnomeConfig from XMonad.Config.Gnome as your base config. (Or just reuse the startupHook from that config, to register with dbus)