[Xmonad] shellPrompt kills xmonad

Andrea Rossato mailing_list at istitutocolli.org
Fri Oct 26 18:18:23 EDT 2007


On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:01:31PM +0100, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> Would it possibly be better to call /bin/sh instead, since that can
> fairly reliably be found on Unix systems, whereas bash is only
> common on GNU/Linux? Alternatively, look for a few (bash, zsh, ksh,
> sh, possibly others) and run one.  Or use the user's $SHELL setting.
> 

Now we relay on bash's compgen to get completions. So we are not just
looking for a shell.

I think this is a less burdensome requirement than the readline
library, after all.

Andrea



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