[xmonad] modMask + q not reloading xmonad

[Matt Brown]

I added

PATH="/home/matt/bin:${PATH}"

to my .xsession, and now it works!  thanks dominik!


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Dominik Bruhn <dominik at dbruhn.de> wrote:
> Hy,
> is it realy "~/bin" in your path or is it "/home/username/bin".
>> I had to hard code the path
>> into my .xsession file, because ~/bin isn't there when the x session
>> starts.
> What do you mean by "isnt there when the xsession starts"? I should be there and
> you shouldnt have to hardcode the path. This should be your error, if you have
> to hardcode the path, then this would lead into the problem uppon restarting
> xmonad you described.
>
>  I downloaded and built the following sources:
>>
>> Cabal-1.4.0.2.tar.gz  X11-1.4.2.tar.gz  X11-extras-0.4.tar.gz
>> xmonad-0.8.tar.gz  xmonad-contrib-0.8.tar.gz
>>
>> -matt
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Dominik Bruhn <dominik at dbruhn.de> wrote:
>> > Hy,
>> > is the "xmonad" binary on your path? Can you execute "xmonad" from the
>> > commandline? Show us your $PATH ("echo $PATH" on a cmdline) and tell us where
>> > you got the xmonad-binary ("xmonad", perhaps in /home/username/bin)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:58:23AM -0700, Matt Brown wrote:
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm brand new to xmonad, and having a great time with it.  There have
>> >> been a few problems, though, that I can't seem to figure out.  The
>> >> first is that modMask+q                          does not reload
>> >> xmonad, like I read somewhere it should.  It doesn't pop up an
>> >> xmessage error window, either.  There is no indication that anything
>> >> is happening (at least none I am aware of), other than the q is not
>> >> sent to the active X client (which implies it's bound to something,
>> >> right?).  Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> thanks
>> >>
>> >> -Matt Brown
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>> > --
>> > Dominik Bruhn
>> > mailto: dominik at dbruhn.de
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