[Xmonad] Issue 23 in xmonad: Processes from .xinitrc stay around forever

Kai Grossjohann kai.grossjohann at verizonbusiness.com
Wed Jun 13 08:36:40 EDT 2007


codesite-noreply at google.com writes:

> When one of the processes started in the background from .xinitrc
> exits, it will stay around as a "defunct" process until
> xmonad quits, because xmonad apparently doesn't wait() on processes
> that it doesn't even know about. I'm not entirely sure whether this is
> typical behavior for a window manager, nor whether it should be
> considered a bug.

I guess if .xinitrc started them, .xinitrc should wait on them.

Kai



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