[Xmonad] mod-shift-c has no effect

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

gn:
> Georg Neis <gn at oglaroon.de> wrote:
> > the only program that I'm able to kill by pressing mod-shift-c is
> > xterm.  For all other programs I can't notice any effect.
> 
> I've found the reason.  In my .xinitrc I used to start the tool
> root-tail to print some logfile to the root window.  If I comment out
> that line, then mod-shift-c works as expected.  I don't know why.  I
> also wonder why manually running root-tail from an xterm after xmonad
> has started up doesn't cause any trouble.
> 

Ok. This is a bit wierd. Can you narrow it down any further?

-- Don