[xmonad] xmonad always requires reloading after reboot...

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

That is very strange. Is it possible some other program that you're  
starting is also taking an active grab on mod4+p, overriding xmonad's  
grab?

~d

Quoting Tim Wilkinson <mu31tw at yahoo.co.uk>:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> I've been using xmonad for around 6 months, both at work and at  
> home, and I think it's pretty much the best thing since the  
> proverbial sliced bread.  I'm just having one small problem that I  
> wanted to ask for some advice on:  I use xmonad with xfce4, mainly   
> for the toolbar and also for a few additional plugins, and the  
> extremely-useful mod-p launcher.  Recently I've changed the mod key  
> in ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs to mod4 (the windows key) because using alt  
> was clashing with some other programmes, but this unfortunately  
> stopped my beloved mod-p from functioning, (using either the old  
> alt-p or the expected new mod4-p).  I wanted this function mapped to  
> mod4-p, so I tried remapping this key combination in xmonad.hs to  
> spawn the correct process when I hit mod4-p, and this works fine,  
> -except- that it only works after reloading xmonad.hs (mod4-q) after  
> every startup.  The mod4 key works perfectly except for this, and  
> after reloading xmonad mod4-p works
>  exactly as expected, so I was just wondering if anyone has any idea  
> why it needs reloading each time?  I've tried looking around the  
> appropriate xmonad pages, and have so far not found any solutions,  
> so thought I'd ask around a bit further.  My full xmonad.hs is shown  
> below, it's pretty short and sweet.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Tim W.
>
>
>
> ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs:
>
>
> import XMonad
> import XMonad.Config.Xfce
> import XMonad.Util.EZConfig
>
>
> main = xmonad $ xfceConfig
>         { borderWidth = 3
>         , focusedBorderColor = "#00688B"
>         , modMask = mod4Mask    -- Use win key instead of Alt
>         }
>         `additionalKeys`
>         [ ((mod4Mask, xK_p), spawn "xfrun4")
>         ]