[xmonad] Broken Xmonad after updates

[Brandon Allbery]

As per the documentation of `startx`, if you do not use a full pathname it
runs a default session and passes it your argument as a parameter. Also
make sure `~/.xinitrc` is executable (`chmod +x ~/.xinitrc) and that its
first line is `#! /bin/bash` or `#! /bin/sh`.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 12:38 PM Jan Detke <jandetke at outlook.com> wrote:

> Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Your description of running `startx` seems a bit confused to me. Did you
> > run it in the background and then try to run xmonad? This won't work
> > because `startx` can't alter the environment variables of the running
> > shell, so `$DISPLAY` won't be set. You need to run xmonad within the
> client
> > environment: `startx ~/.cache/xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux` (it has to be a
> > full pathname; see the `startx` documentation).
> >
> I thought that I had to start the xserver before invoking 'exec
> ~/.cache/xmonad/...'' like I would in .xinitrc. Now when I log in and
> manually run 'startx ~/.cache/xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux' it works like a
> charm. But when I run 'startx .xinitrc' where one line of .xinitrc contains
> 'exec ~/.cache/xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux' the startup of the xserver
> fails. I also tried giving the full path like 'home/jan/.cache/...' but it
> still fails. Do I have to wrap the path into quotes for the exec command or
> what is wrong here?
>
> Best regards
> Jan
>


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brandon s allbery kf8nh
allbery.b at gmail.com
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