[xmonad] Xmonad + KDE4: a possible bug?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, scolfield <kscolfield at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've recently installed the newest KDE4 version on my Gentoo and I
> configured Xmonad according to
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_KDE. There is
> an strange behaviour. Actually, the xmonad doens't run when KDE starts and
> any error is reported. KDE starts normally but the window tilling feature
> of Xmonad doesn't.
>

Our KDE support is a little out of date, but this should work.


> My .xinitrc contains a single line with "exec startkde" command. And, my
> /etc/conf.d/xdm file contains "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm". Moreover, i created
> and edited set_window_manager.sh file with "export KDEWM=/usr/bin" in
> ~/.kde4/env
>

`export KDEWM=/usr/bin` tells KDE to try to run *the directory /usr/bin* as
a window manager, which won't do anything --- it will catch an "Is a
directory" error and fail to start any window manager. You need to point it
to the actual window manager, not a directory; and it would be within its
rights (although I don't think it does) to assume, given that it's a
directory, that you meant /usr/bin/kdewm instead of guessing that you meant
something else.

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