[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#772179: Bug#772179: provide Xmonad/GNOME session in jessie like in wheezy

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Fri Dec 5 22:32:22 UTC 2014


Hi Thomas,


Am Freitag, den 05.12.2014, 23:15 +0100 schrieb Thomas Koch:
> I'm trying to setup a new laptop with jessie and there isn't a Xmonad/GNOME
> session anymore. I understand that GNOME made it much more complicate to
> switch the window manager? Is there no hope to make it work?

there is hope if someone steps up to figure out how it is made to work,
work around the issues and documents it. But I have given up, not using
GNOME any more, and so far none steps up.

> If so, there should be at least a news file telling people that they have to
> switch.

Hmm, there is a NEWS file in /usr/share/doc/xmonad/NEWS.Debian.gz. Did I
do that wrong?

> Or could we instead provide integration with KDE/LXDE/XFCE?

Possibly – again, if someone comes and does the work :-)


Greetings,
Joachim
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