running Wingo from a login manager by creating an xsession file

[BurntSushi]

Apparently xinitrc is completely ignored and there is some voodoo that we need to do to get Wingo to appear in the list of available window managers.

Look at the Ubuntu package for xmonad and see how they do it.

[sam-falvo]

I finally found it!

As root user, create a new file in /usr/share/xsessions called wingo.desktop. Inside this file, place the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=WinGo
Comment=Lightweight tiling window manager in Go
Exec=wingo
Icon=wingo.png
Type=XSession

In my case, I just copied xmonad.png to wingo.png (wherever xmonad.png happened to be), since I was too lazy to create my own. The executable, however, needed to be created separately. I created a wrapper /usr/bin/wingo:

#!/bin/bash
export GOPATH=$HOME/go/wingo
$GOPATH/bin/wingo

and from this point forward, I was able to select wingo from my lightdm collection of window managers!

[BurntSushi]

Awesome! Thank you for the leg work. I'll incorporate this in the docs at some point.

[kalbasit]

This worked for me Thanks.