[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#756646: Bug#756646: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev: Cannot use xmonad with gnome

[Kenn]

Huh, I guess there’s some big political issue with newer versions of Gnome I wasn’t really aware of.

Is it possible to use XMonad with gnome-flashback?  (Does gnome-flashback work with 3.12, or are there any plans to make it?)  I just want to use gnome-panel with XMonad, which works fine with earlier versions :/

Thanks,
  Kenn

On 1 Aug 2014, at 03:20, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:

> Dear Kenn,
> 
> 
> thanks for the report. With 3.12, gnome-session isn’t really usable
> without gnome-shell (e.g. no way to quit the session).
> 
> I plan to remove the xmonad-GNOME session in the next xmonad upload. I
> will also improve the xmonad session by providing support for
> running .xmonad/xmonad-session-rc in the startup sequence.
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachm
> 
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2014, 13:59 -0400 schrieb Kenn Hamm:
>> Package: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev
>> Version: 0.11.3-1+b1
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: upstream
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>>   * What led up to the situation?
>> 
>> Tried to use XMonad with Gnome.
>> 
>>   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>>     ineffective)?
>> 
>> Selected it as session type and logged in.  My config is based on
>> XMonad.Config.Gnome.
>> 
>>   * What was the outcome of this action?
>> 
>> XMonad starts but never registers itself with Gnome, and after a
>> timeout Gnome kills it and I get an error screen.
>> 
>>   * What outcome did you expect instead?
>> 
>> XMonad registers itself with Gnome.
>> 
>> Errors in /var/log/messages:
>> 
>> Jul 31 13:01:58 teffeh gnome-session[3005]: invalid value (=string) of "--print-reply"
>> Jul 31 13:01:58 teffeh gnome-session[3005]: Usage: dbus-send [--help] [--system | --session | --bus=ADDRESS | --peer=ADDRESS] [--dest=NAME] [--type=TYPE] [--print-reply[=literal]] [--reply-timeout=MSEC] <destination object path> <message name> [contents ...]
>> 
>> This bug is already fixed upstream:
>> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2014-May/014130.html
>> 
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>>  APT prefers testing-updates
>>  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> 
>> Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>> 
>> Versions of packages libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev depends on:
>> ii  ghc [libghc-unix-dev-2.6.0.1-4f219]                            7.6.3-14
>> ii  libc6                                                          2.19-7
>> pn  libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-8aa5d                                  <none>
>> pn  libghc-containers-dev-0.5.0.0-ab1da                            <none>
>> pn  libghc-directory-dev-1.2.0.1-91a78                             <none>
>> ii  libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev [libghc-extensible-exception  0.1.1.4-2
>> ii  libghc-mtl-dev [libghc-mtl-dev-2.1.2-94c72]                    2.1.2-4
>> pn  libghc-old-locale-dev-1.0.0.5-6729c                            <none>
>> pn  libghc-old-time-dev-1.1.0.1-2f8ea                              <none>
>> pn  libghc-process-dev-1.1.0.2-76e05                               <none>
>> ii  libghc-random-dev [libghc-random-dev-1.0.1.1-43fdc]            1.0.1.1-3
>> ii  libghc-utf8-string-dev [libghc-utf8-string-dev-0.3.7-26a8e]    0.3.7-3
>> ii  libghc-x11-dev [libghc-x11-dev-1.6.1.2-1bb20]                  1.6.1.2-1+b1
>> ii  libghc-x11-xft-dev [libghc-x11-xft-dev-0.3.1-2bbbb]            0.3.1-5+b3
>> ii  libghc-xmonad-dev [libghc-xmonad-dev-0.11-bd2b0]               0.11-8
>> ii  libx11-dev                                                     2:1.6.2-2
>> ii  libxinerama-dev                                                2:1.1.3-1
>> 
>> libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev recommends no packages.
>> 
>> Versions of packages libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev suggests:
>> ii  libghc-xmonad-contrib-doc   0.11.3-1
>> pn  libghc-xmonad-contrib-prof  <none>
>> 
>> -- debconf-show failed
>> 
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