[Xmonad] shellPrompt kills xmonad

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Andrea Rossato wrote:
> 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.

Why would it be?  Bash absolutely requires readline (and includes a
copy, but that's not relevent since you still need a readline-capable
system).

Stefan
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