> ...create your own session script to start up the parts of Gnome that you want along with XMonad... On Ubuntu at least I've had success with http://markhanse

> ...create your own session script to start up the parts of Gnome that you want along with XMonad... On Ubuntu at least I've had success with http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/ http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/ (Having the launcher floating around is annoying though, and removing it from the gnome-session file had some unpleasant side-effect that I don't remember.)