Editing Xmonad/Using xmonad in XFCE (section)

==== Setting up Xfce ====

Open up the Xfce settings manager.  There, you can customise Xfce to your hearts content.  Note that the following settings dialogs won't be applicable once we start XMonad:
* Window Manager
* Window Manager Tweaks
* Workspaces and Margins
The last option isn't required, as Xfce will happily use XMonad's workspaces.

These options are recommended:
* Under "Desktop", let Xfce manage the desktop, but under Behaviour set the Desktop Icons to "None".  This way, Xfce will control your wallpaper, etc., allowing you to have random lists, different wallpapers for different screens for multi-head setups, etc.
* The Keyboard settings can be used to set keyboard shortcuts for those multimedia keys (e.g. XF86AudioMute) found on many keyboards, since these types of keys are currently difficult to create shortcuts for in XMonad.  Simply setup the various keyevents to these keybindinds for use with xmodmap in ~/.Xmodmap and Xfce will read these on start.
* Mouse: if you don't have or want to use a mouse, there's a limited type of mouse emulation available where you can use the Numpad arrow keys to move the cursor.
* For "Preferred Applications", set whichever terminal emulator you plan to use.  I find that Xfce's own Terminal application to work quite nicely with XMonad and to resize rather well.

If you so wish, you can now disable the session chooser, though I suggest you leave it enabled until you've successfully managed to login to your Xfce/XMonad environment several times.