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After I have installed Ubuntu Gutsy Gibon on my laptop, I at the same time wanted to shift away from Gnome, and at the same time have all the nice things that works out of the box with Ubuntu. The first step to achieve this is to get Gnome Panel to work in Wmii, since the menu actually give a good overview of what you can do with Ubuntu.

It is quite small but not so obvious steps that is needed to have Gnome Panel running in wmii:

First you start Gnome Panel (e.g. with MOD-p gnome-panel)

Then you right click on the gnome-panel which now doesn't show anything, and choose properties.

Deactive the expand check-box.

Now you have to make wmii treat Gnome Panel as a floating app, by adding ~/.wmii-/wmiirc this line under the tag rules (the first line is already there):

wmiir write /tagrules <<EOF
/Gnome-panel.*/ -> ~


Now you have to reload your wmiirc and restart the Gnome Panel, and it should be working.

I have also added this line:
/Gnome-panel.*/ -> zystem


So I am sure that the gnome panel appear in the zystem workspace (which have the initial z to be sure it is the last workspace).