[LUNA] Question on Xmnodad, GNOME, and RHEL6

[Paul F. Pearson]

Last "blog", I swear! Just sharing what I've learned in case someone else goes through this.

In the Windows Remote Desktop Client, In "Display", I chose to send Windows keys to the remote computer. Pretty simple option that I'd overlooked before. 

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Paul F. Pearson
We all laugh in the same language

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

> 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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