[Xmonad] xmd and xmonad

[Spencer Janssen]

On Monday 06 August 2007 03:30:00 Andrea Rossato wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I had a coule of nasty experiences with xdm, the X display
> manager. Indeed I discovered the when pressing mod-q repeatedly XMonad
> will quit, instead of restarting, and you will be prompted with a new
> xdm login screen.
>
> I can always reproduce it: start X with xdm, and then login. Press
> mod-q twice or more and you are out.
>
> I cannot reproduce if I connect to Xmd from a remote X server launched
> with the -query option.
>
> For instance:
> /usr/bin/Xnest -ac -query localhost :1
>
> will not reproduce the error.
>
> I cannot reproduce it with Kdm (I did not try with Gdm since it's not
> installed on my system).
>
> Can this be related to the way Xdm manages local sessions? I have the
> feeling that this could be the problem.
>
> By the way it is quite a nasty experience, not different from a crash.
> And the user should be at least warned.
>
> Ciao,
> Andrea
>
> PS: Instruction to run Xdm in a second X server:
>
> 1. change /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver to:
> :10 local /usr/bin/X :10
>
> 2. start xdm with:
> xdm
> The display you'll have to connect to will be :10.
> Now you can test the problem.

I've got a theory: try calling closeDisplay before executeFile in restart.


Spencer Janssen