[Xmonad] Dynamically reloading Config

[Alec Berryman]

Bas van Dijk on 2007-04-13 15:09:26 +0200:

> On 4/13/07, Alec Berryman <alec at thened.net> wrote:
> >...
> >It sounds like /home/bas/bin is not in your $PATH.  The restart key
> >calls 'xmonad', not the same file that was originally executed.
> >
> >The default shell on my system is not bash, so .xsession doesn't pick up
> >my local paths (sourced out of ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc).  I have
> >something like this at the end of my ~/.xsession:
> >
> >exec bash -l -c 'xmonad'
>
> Yes, I think that's the problem. However If I put:
>
>  exec bash -l -c 'xmonad'
>
> in my .xsession then after login I immediately jump back to xdm.
> Presumably because xmonad can't be found. If I put:
>
>   exec bash -l -c '/home/bas/bin/xmonad'
>
> then xmonad will start up but the mod-ctrl-shift-q will still bring me
> back to xdm.
>
> Note that I have the following in .bashrc:
>
> export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

I passed the -l flag to make it a login shell to force bash to read my
~/.bash_profile, which sources ~/.bashrc, which has the PATH information.  I
couldn't get it to work without the -l, and presumably you won't be able to get
it to work without that PATH line in or sourced by your ~/.bash_login.

I always have to look at the bash man page when dealing with stuff like
this.