Xmonad/Using xmonad in MATE

XMonad

Using xmonad in MATE

MATE is a supported fork of Gnome 2, with various components renamed to avoid collisions with Gnome components. At present, Fedora ships both MATE and an xmonad session using it (`xmonad-mate` package); for other platforms, look for MATE in your package manager or check http://mate-desktop.org.

The current development version of xmonad-contrib from darcs has an `XMonad.Config.Mate` which should work out of the box on most platforms. For earlier versions, you may want to copy `XMonad.Config.Gnome` to `~/.xmonad/lib/XMonad/Config/Mate.hs` and replace (matching case as appropriate) all instances of "`gnome`" with "`mate`". This will affect the terminal, the session manager connection, and the X11 message sent to activate the run command dialog, among other things.

Replacing the default window manager

You will need to create a freedesktop.org desktop file for xmonad, probably in `/usr/share/applications/xmonad.desktop`:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Type=Application
   Name=XMonad
   Exec=/usr/bin/xmonad
   NoDisplay=true
   X-GNOME-WMName=XMonad
   X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager
   X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager
   X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true

To replace `marco` with `xmonad` for all sessions, use the following (per user):

   dconf write /org/mate/session/required-components/windowmanager xmonad

(TODO: alternative session file)