Comment #9 on issue 576 by beyer...@gmail.com: On FreeBSD Xmonad loses first hotkey sometimes http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=576 I'm also on FreeBSD, and while I haven't debugged the issue formally, I can say that they execute more reliably (haven't seen any issues since) when spawned inside tcsh. First I tried something like the following: I converted: spawn "dmenu_run" to spawn "tcsh -c 'dmenu_run'" Then, I decided to dig into the definition of spawn, and then I made an alternate version of spawn instead... eg like the following: -- | spawn. Launch an external application. Specifically, it double-forks and -- runs the 'String' you pass as a command to \/bin\/sh. -- -- Note this function assumes your locale uses utf8. spawn' :: MonadIO m => String -> m () spawn' x = spawnPIDTCSH x >> return () -- | Like 'spawn', but returns the 'ProcessID' of the launched application spawnPIDTCSH :: MonadIO m => String -> m ProcessID spawnPIDTCSH x = xfork $ executeFile "/bin/tcsh" False ["-c", encodeString x] Nothing Now, when I execute something like spawn' "dmenu_run" It works reliably. Hope this helps, although you might be experiencing a different issue. Regards, Tim -- You received this message because this project is configured to send all issue notifications to this address. You may adjust your notification preferences at: https://code.google.com/hosting/settings