[xmonad] Can not restart Xmonad

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:04 AM, <kedals0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> toto at compaq:~/.xmonad$ ./xmonad --version
> X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private resource
> denied)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
>   Serial number of failed request:  7
>   Current serial number in output stream:  8
>

--version will not work for a user-configured xmonad binary, only for the
master one.  That is, option checking is not done by the xmonad function
but by the Main.hs of the xmonad package, which calls the xmonad function
unless options such as --version are passed.

>> toto at compaq:~$ .xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux --help
> >> X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private
> >> resource denied)
>

Likewise, neither does --help work for a custom xmonad binary, only for the
main one.  You should not, in general, run the custom one directly but
instead let the main xmonad do so; there are no promises that the linkage
between the two will remain the same (fixing the $PATH issue may require
changing it, for example).

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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