Comment #4 on issue 279 by seschwar: Some GTK2 apps crash X when XMonad's stderr is not redirected to /dev/null http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=279 Nothing gets written to stdout/fd 1. Here is basically what gets written to stderr/fd 2: write(2, "P"..., 1) = -1 EIO (Input/output error) write(2, "xmonad-i386-linux: "..., 19) = -1 EIO (Input/output error) write(2, "<stderr>: hPutChar: hardware fault (Input/output error)"..., 55) = -1 EIO (Input/output error) write(2, "\n"..., 1) = -1 EIO (Input/output error) I've attached the complete strace. Attachments: xmonad.strace 295 KB -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings