gnome-panel broken with xmonad session in 14.04

In 14.04, I've installed both gnome-session-flashback and xmonad.

• When logging in using lightdm and the XMonad+Gnome session, the gnome-panel is broken, with half the indicators missing.

• When logging in with a flashback session, and then running xmonad --replace, everything works as expected.

• I've tried copying the RequiredComponents line from /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-flashback.session to xmonad.session (replacing metacity with xmonad) but it doesn't help.

I guess something is still missing with my xmonad.session. What?

Solution 1:

Here's how I got xmonad+gnome-panel to work. Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 desktop 64-bit.

1. Install xmonad:

   sudo apt-get install xmonad gnome-panel
   

2. Create ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs with the following [1]:

   import XMonad
   import XMonad.Config.Gnome
   
   main = do
       xmonad $ gnomeConfig
   

3. Select session "GNOME with Xmonad" at lightdm

Hope this helps.