--===============8500035938177817488== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c1640abfd1e904f2763e7d --001a11c1640abfd1e904f2763e7d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, scolfield 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 Our KDE support is a little out of date, but this should work.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 > > _______________________________________________ > xmonad mailing list > xmonad@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad > > --001a11c1640abfd1e904f2763e7d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Actually, it should probably be

export KDEWM=3D/usr/bin/xmonad
if you want to run xmonad within KDE Workspace.

Cheers,
Hans
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Brandon Al= lbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM= , scolfield <kscolfield@gmail.com> wrote:

<= blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px= #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My .x= initrc contains a single line with "exec startkde" = command. And, my /etc/conf.d/x= dm file contains "D= ISPLAYMANAGER=3Dkdm". Moreover, i created and edited set_window_manager.sh file with "export KDEWM=3D/usr/bin" in ~/.kde4/e= nv

`export KDEWM=3D/usr/bin` tell= s 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 an= d fail to start any window manager. You need to point it to the actual wind= ow 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 y= ou meant /usr/bin/kdewm instead of guessing that you meant something else.<= /div>

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