[xmonad] Can not restart Xmonad

kedals0 at gmail.com kedals0 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 08:36:19 CEST 2012


That was my problem.
Thanks.

Maybe it could be a good idea to warn user about this.
Because this behavior is a little bit strange:
If you see what is the running program with ps command, it's not the
program that you have to launch.

Bye,
Dal.

wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu writes:

> Again: "~/.xmonad/xmonad --version" isn't intended to work (neither is  
> "~/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux --version"). Just use "xmonad  
> --restart" and let it invoke "~/.xmonad/xmonad" correctly for you.
>
> ~d
>
> Quoting kedals0 at gmail.com:
>
>> /usr/bin/xmonad --help works.
>> Then, I've try with default configuration in my xmonad.hs file:
>> main = xmonad defaultConfig
>> But result is the same:
>> 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
>>
>> I think I will try to see where is the problem in XMonad source code.
>>
>> Dal.
>>
>> wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu writes:
>>
>>> I don't see anything indicating a problem so far. "xmonad --help"
>>> should work fine, as should "xmonad --restart". The binary in .xmonad
>>> is a much less capable piece of code than the one in /usr/bin/xmonad.
>>> You should not need any special modules or fixes in .xmonad/xmonad.hs,
>>> so if you've done something like that in an attempt to "fix" what
>>> isn't broken below, you should undo your fixes before trying "xmonad
>>> --restart".
>>>
>>> ~d
>>>
>>> Quoting kedals0 at gmail.com:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I can not restart Xmonad without quiting X.
>>>> When I launch xmonad from console, I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> toto at compaq:~$ .xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux --help
>>>> 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
>>>> toto at compaq:~$ <stdin>: hGetLine: end of file
>>>>
>>>> I'm using a compiled xmonad version from darcs:
>>>> toto at compaq:~$ ghc-pkg list --user |grep xmonad
>>>>     xmonad-0.10.1
>>>>     xmonad-contrib-0.10.1
>>>>
>>>> toto at compaq:~$ ps aux |grep xmonad
>>>> toto    17397  0.2  0.3  55652  5124 ?        Ss   10:03   0:05
>>>> /home/toto/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas ?
>>>>
>>>> Thx in advance,
>>>> Dal
>>>>
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