[xmonad] Xmonad + KDE4: a possible bug?

Hans Chen hanswchen at gmail.com
Sat Feb 15 18:38:59 UTC 2014


Actually, it should probably be

export KDEWM=/usr/bin/xmonad

if you want to run xmonad within KDE Workspace.

Cheers,
Hans

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:

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 Our KDE support is a little out of date, but this should work.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