Thanks to both Daniel Wagner and Brandon Allbery for their suggestions. I've ended up using Daniel's one because it seemed more similar to what I was thinking. I only changed the order of "yes\nno\n", to make the default be "no" since I very, very rarely exit xmonad (on purpose). Best, R. On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:45:55 -0500,wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu wrote:

How about this?

import Control.Monad import System.Exit import XMonad.Util.Run

promptExit = do response <- runProcessWithInput "dmenu" ["-p", "Really quit?"] "yes\nno\n" when (response == "yes") (io (exitWith ExitSuccess))

Then you can add a keybinding like ((modMask, xK_q), promptExit). You might also look into XMonad.Prompt; somebody who's a bit more expert in that module can probably suggest how to do the analogous thing.

~d

Quoting Ramon Diaz-Uriarte :

...

Dear All,

Occasionally, I do something silly and by mistake type

modMask + shift + q

and xmonad, as it should, immediately exits. When done accidentally, this is a pain. So:

a) is there a way to get xmonad to ask for confirmation to exit?

b) alternatively, can I define four (of five) key combinations, so I need to do something really contrived to exit?

I've searched both answers without success, and my attempts at four-key combinations have not worked (even if I get xmonad --recompile to run).

Thanks,

R. -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25. Facultad de Medicina (UAM) Arzobispo Morcillo, 2 28029 Madrid Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02@gmail.com ramon.diaz@iib.uam.es

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Thanks. I wasn't at all aware of that. I'll use the solution you suggested then. R. On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:47:24 -0500,Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:43, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:

...

Thanks to both Daniel Wagner and Brandon Allbery for their suggestions.

I've ended up using Daniel's one because it seemed more similar to what I was thinking. I only changed the order of "yes\nno\n", to make the default be "no" since I very, very rarely exit xmonad (on purpose).

Daniel's solution has the potential for problems, because xmonad's main loop isn't processing events while it's running. (This is a common problem with most of the contrib functions that process input; they really need to do their input handling in the handleEventHook instead of opening a new connection to the X server. For those who keep track of such things, the possible failure mode is the same as with the infamous putSelection.)

-- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25. Facultad de Medicina (UAM) Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: rdiaz02@gmail.com ramon.diaz@iib.uam.es http://ligarto.org/rdiaz