[xmonad] Startup Arguments

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 16:53:00 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Chris Bell <cwbell at mail.usf.edu> wrote:

> My xinitrc script knows how many monitors are active, but I don't know
> how to pass that to Xmonad on startup. Is there a facility to pass
> arguments to Xmonad at startup from xinitrc? Or did I simply miss
> something in the documentation?
>

Not via parameters; this has annoyed me a few times in the past, and I
wonder if there is an opening here for a --user-arg parameter. In the
meantime, the trick used by e.g. Fedora's default xmonad configuration is
environment variables.

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