[xmonad] Starting Audacity under Xmonad triggers end of user session

Josiah Schwab jschwab at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 17:55:19 UTC 2017


Hi Adam,

> I can't reproduce this on my machine (which also happens to be an X1
> carbon) - however, one tip is to look in ~/.xsession-errors after the
> crash occurs, and see if that provides any indication of the cause.

Thank you for that suggestion.  I had forgotten about that file.

> It might very well be getWindowAttributes, as discussed here:
>
>  ยท https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/70

Indeed that is it.  I've got the line

    xmonad-x86_64-linux: user error (Error in function getWindowAttributes)

sitting in my ~/.xsession-errors.old.

I'll read through that GitHub issue to learn more.

Josiah


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