Comment #7 on issue 279 by allbery.b: 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 That would indeed do it; logout leads to the kernel calling vhangup(), which maps all file descriptors on the console/tty to "dead" handlers that return EIO for all operations. As such I don't think this can be considered a problem with xmonad; higher level desktop systems redirect automatically, a lower level window manager such as xmonad (or any other window manager not operating as part of a desktop system) should not be expected to deal with this. -- 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