Status: New Owner: ---- Labels: Type-Enhancement Usability New issue 461 by nome...@gmail.com: if another wm is already running, please give a more descriptive error message http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=461 This request was filed by a user via the Debian bugtracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599211): Steps to reproduce: 1) Start some other wm 2) Run xmonad Expected results: 2) xmonad informs the user that a wm is already running and exits Actual results: 2) xmonad prints /home/lindi/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Serial number of failed request: 7 Current serial number in output stream: 8 and leaves the user completely puzzled. Please consider printing something like "xmonad: Another window manager already running, exiting..." instead or in addition to the above error message.