[LUNA] Question on Xmnodad, GNOME, and RHEL6

[Paul F. Pearson]

Like most things, I finally found the answer on the ArchWiki. xrandr was catching mod-p. I did

$ gconftool-2 -s /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active false --type string

and now mod-p brings up dmenu (which I like, now that I've actually used it!). 

Likewise, the following makes Xmonad my window manager when I connect via rdesktop:

$ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager xmonad --type string

Now, I need to tell Windows' remote desktop client to pass the Windows key -- the options are behaving as I expect. I may have to find an alternative binding for mod. 

------
Paul F. Pearson
We all laugh in the same language

----- "Paul F. Pearson" <pfpearson at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Yes, I explicitly did a 'sudo yum install dmenu'.
> 
> I'm supposing that Xinerama (or whatever is managing my dual-monitor
> setup) is catching the mod-p keybinding, but I don't know a good way
> to know that.
> 
> Also (and I'll likely ask about this separately) when I use Windows
> Remote Desktop to connect, I get GNOME but no option to choose my
> window manager, and I'm apparently still getting Metacity. I'm digging
> into this a little now.
> 
> ------
> Paul F. Pearson
> We all laugh in the same language
> 
> ----- "cyberdork33" <cyberdork33 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is Dmenu installed? I've used some systems where that has to be
> > installed explicitly. 
> >
> >
> >
> > —
> > 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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