Xmonad/Using xmonad in Ubuntu

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Tips for Xmonad in Ubuntu

1 Without a Desktop Environment

Here are tips on using xmonad in any of the Ubuntu distributions without loading XFCE or a full Gnome session.

Removable media is mounted using a volume manager. Normally, Nautilus takes care of this in Gnome and Thunar for XFCE.

There are several lightweight volume manager choices.

skvm aims for simplicity and speed.
Ivman was originally only for automounting, but now it can run arbitrary commands when a HAL event (closed laptop lid, a certain device is attached) is received.
Thunar, XFCE's file manager, can be run as a daemon (thunar --daemon). It can be configured via its GUI to not open a file listing when a device is inserted.

Trayer has been removed from the repositories in Karmic but is still available in the Ubuntu archives: Trayer for Ubuntu Karmic.

There is also a PPA by user gspr which contains trayer.