Xmonad and KDE on kubuntu feisty

[totherme]

I've not been spending nearly as much time as I'd like to on #haskell recently, so I almost managed to completely miss the xmonad phenomenon. Luckily for me, dons was good enough to write about it, so I haven't missed out completely.

Last year, I spent a few months running wmii - which was fantastic. Since then I've been playing around with Gnome

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Have you found anything?

[anonymous]

I'm in a very similar situation. I'm a long time KDE user and just heard about xmonad, which sounds really interesting.

I might take it for a test drive, but I'm not ready to abandon some KDE software that uses the systray (especially knetworkmanager). Did you find a solution yet?

Re: Have you found anything?

[totherme]

I'm still running the darcs version of xmonad as the KDE window manager. It works quite well for me. I don't have my systray apps available at a glance in a systray on every desktop, but I'm fairly happy with them all sitting on desktop 9, being managed like windows.

I keep meaning to experiment with setting kicker up in the xmonad "gap", so it'll work as a toolbar. Haven't run down that tuit yet though ;)

[anonymous]

Try xystray

Trayer...

[anonymous]

Install it:
sudo apt-get install trayer

Then, in your ~/.xinitrc:
trayer &

My config is:
trayer --edge bottom --align right --widthtype request --heighttype request --SetDockType true --SetPartialStrut false --expand true &

Re: Trayer...

[totherme]

Sounds cool - thanks :)