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Subject: Re: [xmonad] Xmonad + KDE4: a possible bug?
From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b () gmail ! com>
Date: 2014-02-15 18:14:55
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, scolfield <kscolfield@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Our KDE support is a little out of date, but this should work.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.
--
brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates
allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net
unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 \
at 12:51 PM, scolfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kscolfield@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">kscolfield@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div \
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I've recently \
installed the newest KDE4 version on my Gentoo and I configured Xmonad according to \
<a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_KDE" \
target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_KDE</a>. \
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. <br> </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Our KDE \
support is a little out of date, but this should work.</div><div> </div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr"><div \
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">My .xinitrc \
contains a single line with "<font face="courier new, monospace">exec \
startkde</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">" command. And, my \
</font><font face="courier new, monospace">/etc/conf.d/xdm</font><font face="arial, \
helvetica, sans-serif"> file contains "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm". Moreover, i \
created and edited </font><font face="courier new, \
monospace">set_window_manager.sh</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> \
file with "</font><font face="courier new, monospace">export \
KDEWM=/usr/bin</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">" in </font><font \
face="courier new, monospace">~/.kde4/env</font><font face="arial, helvetica, \
sans-serif"> </font></div> </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>`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.</div> <div><br></div></div>-- \
<br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh \
sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> \
<a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" \
target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div> <div>unix, openafs, kerberos, \
infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" \
target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div> </div></div>
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