Excerpts from Daniel Goldin's message of Wed Aug 19 14:41:52 -0600 2009:
----------------------- snip -------------------------- -- when I hit alt q, not only does nothing happen, but I lose all keyboard shortcuts....
I load from .xinitrc and had to set the path in this file to load xmonad from my ~/.cabal/bin directory. I have a feeling this has something to do with the problem.
-- skipped } `additionalKeys` [ ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_z), spawn "xscreensaver-command -lock") , ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s") , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot") ]
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Since you don't have the path to xmonad executable in the environment from which you start it, mod-q can't find xmonad to restart. Check .xsession-errors for clues if you still have problems, but I think the following should get you going: Include in your display manager environment the path to ~/.cabal/bin, or there are other ways to do it too, but a simple way is: Use full path in keybindings. -- Define at top level. Prepends cabal bin path to a string. cbin = (++) "/home/daniel/.cabal/bin/" main = do -- skipped } `additionalKeys` [ ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_z), spawn "xscreensaver-command -lock") , ((controlMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -s") , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot") -- add new mod-q binding using full path <----------------------- , ((mod4Mask, xK_q), restart (cbin "xmonad") True) -- OR for darcs versions of xmonad -- , ((mod4Mask, xK_q), -- spawn $ cbin "xmonad --recompile; " ++ cbin "xmonad --restart") ] Save these changes, and check that they compile by running xmonad --recompile in a shell, (should give no errors.) Then with release version of xmonad you will have to restart X (first time only) to use the newly compiled xmonad. If you have darcs instead, then just run xmonad --restart to use the new config. -- wmw