Hello, I don't know if anyone else feels the same way about sandboxing "user-code," but I think that sprinkling catch all over any code that calls XMonadContrib code is a complete abuse of the catch mechanism. In my opinion the only exceptions that xmonad should be trying to catch are those that are truly exceptional errors as thrown by, for example, X11. Ignoring bad contrib code errors and pretending like they don't exists seems completely counter to xmonad's goal of being solid, tested code. In summary, I feel that there is a difference between not having errors and ignoring them. Xmonad is still in active development and bad code should be as visible as possible. (This has been discussed at length in the IRC channel, but I wanted to post my position to the mailing list because obviously not all of the users and developers were present.) -- Eric Mertens Phone: 503.626.6616, x155 Galois Fax: 503.214.8120 12725 SW Millikan Way Ste 290 http://www.galois.com Beaverton, OR 97005-1691 emertens@galois.com