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If you're running Ubuntu then if you

  apt-get install xmonad gnome-panel
a GNOME with Xmonad option will appear in your login screen. Then you have to create an xmonad configuration that works with GNOME like so

  import XMonad
  import XMonad.Config.Gnome

  main = do
      xmonad $ gnomeConfig
in .xmonad/xmonad.hs and everything will work.


Mind = blown. That's awesome, I'll have to give this a try. I used to run XMonad on Arch, but then I switched to Ubuntu a couple of years back and got with the Unity program. But if I can have the best of both worlds, I'm sold. The icing on the cake would be if a drop-down terminal like Tilda still works with this hybrid setup as well.




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