[LUNA] Question on Xmnodad, GNOME, and RHEL6

cyberdork33 cyberdork33 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 09:29:36 CST 2015


Is Dmenu installed? I've used some systems where that has to be installed explicitly. 



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Ricky

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Paul F. Pearson <pfpearson at mchsi.com>
wrote:

> Background: 
> I'm trying to use Xmonad at work, on a RHEL6 system running GNOME (Xmonad is the only tiling WM I can see available at work). I'm not glutton for punishment -- I'm hoping it'll make it easier when I have to use remote desktop from my work laptop (I occasionally need a GUI from home and X-Forwarding over the VPN is intolerably slow -- remote desktop is slow but very usable). 
> I installed with 'sudo yum install xmonad-gnome'. 
> Problem: 
> I can't figure out why mod-p isn't bringing up dmenu; it instead toggles my two monitors to/from mirroring. I've remapped Super (left Windows key) to mod, but I saw the same behavior when mod was left-Alt. I can use mod-shftt-p to bring up gmrun. 
> Is there a way to tell Xmonad to list all the current keybindings? I know mod-shift-slash is supposed to show the default bindings (it doesn't in my setup, BTW), but I want to see if RedHat may have tweaked some things. 
> I think my unfamiliarity with Haskell will slow me down from being a "power user", but that's OK -- I like learning stuff! 
> ------ 
> Paul F. Pearson 
> We all laugh in the same language 
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