[xmonad] alt q causes crash

[Daniel Goldin]

Thanks so much for your help. Seems to work well but I have a similar problem when I try to logout with alt-shift q. Do I need to do something similar here?  I understand that this is what I need to modify -- but how? 

     -- Quit xmonad
     , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_q     ), io (exitWith ExitSuccess))

Thanks again.

d.


On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Wirt Wolff wrote:

>Excerpts from Daniel Goldin's message of Wed Aug 19 14:41:52 -0600 2009:
>
>> ----------------------- snip --------------------------
>> -- when I hit alt q, not only does nothing happen, but I lose all keyboard
>> shortcuts....
>> 
>> I load from .xinitrc and had to set the path in this file to load xmonad from
>> my ~/.cabal/bin directory. I have a feeling this has something to do with the
>> problem.
>> 
>>           -- skipped
>>         } `additionalKeys`
>>         [ ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_z), spawn "xscreensaver-command -lock")
>>         , ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s")
>>         , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot")
>>         ]
>> 
>> ----------------------- snip --------------------------
>> 
>
>Since you don't have the path to xmonad executable in the environment
>from which you start it, mod-q can't find xmonad to restart.
>
>Check .xsession-errors for clues if you still have problems, but I
>think the following should get you going:
>
>Include in your display manager environment the path to ~/.cabal/bin,
>or there are other ways to do it too, but a simple way is:
>
>Use full path in keybindings.
>
>-- Define at top level. Prepends cabal bin path to a string.
>cbin = (++) "/home/daniel/.cabal/bin/"
>
>main = do 
>    -- skipped
>   } `additionalKeys`
>   [ ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_z), spawn "xscreensaver-command -lock")
>   , ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s")
>   , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot")
>     -- add new mod-q binding using full path <-----------------------
>   , ((mod4Mask, xK_q), restart (cbin "xmonad") True)
>     -- OR for darcs versions of xmonad
>-- , ((mod4Mask, xK_q),
>--      spawn $ cbin "xmonad --recompile; " ++ cbin "xmonad --restart") ]
>
>Save these changes, and check that they compile by running
>xmonad --recompile in a shell, (should give no errors.) Then with release
>version of xmonad you will have to restart X (first time only) to use the
>newly compiled xmonad. If you have darcs instead, then just run
>xmonad --restart to use the new config.
>
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Daniel Goldin 
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