Re: [Xmonad] Dynamically reloading Config

Bas van Dijk on 2007-04-13 15:09:26 +0200:

On 4/13/07, Alec Berryman wrote:

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... It sounds like /home/bas/bin is not in your $PATH. The restart key calls 'xmonad', not the same file that was originally executed.

The default shell on my system is not bash, so .xsession doesn't pick up my local paths (sourced out of ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc). I have something like this at the end of my ~/.xsession:

exec bash -l -c 'xmonad'

Yes, I think that's the problem. However If I put:

exec bash -l -c 'xmonad'

in my .xsession then after login I immediately jump back to xdm. Presumably because xmonad can't be found. If I put:

exec bash -l -c '/home/bas/bin/xmonad'

then xmonad will start up but the mod-ctrl-shift-q will still bring me back to xdm.

Note that I have the following in .bashrc:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

I passed the -l flag to make it a login shell to force bash to read my ~/.bash_profile, which sources ~/.bashrc, which has the PATH information. I couldn't get it to work without the -l, and presumably you won't be able to get it to work without that PATH line in or sourced by your ~/.bash_login. I always have to look at the bash man page when dealing with stuff like this.