> xmonad itself can’t run with modern Gnome That's not really true. I use the gnome-flashback sesson and have an .desktop in ~/.config/autostart that runs xmo

> xmonad itself can’t run with modern Gnome That's not really true. I use the gnome-flashback sesson and have an .desktop in ~/.config/autostart that runs xmonad --replace after I log in. It's true that logging in with a gnome session using xmonad as the WM isn't really an option any more but switching to xmonad after login continues to work great and is easier to set up than creating your own session ever was. https://github.com/aclough/dotfiles/blob/master/setup-xmonad.sh https://github.com/aclough/dotfiles/blob/master/setup-xmonad...