I'm not sure why it's behaving that way, but can you adjust whatever tool is starting your other WM to start xmonad instead? There's instructions for many of the common login managers in the xmonad FAQ. ~d On 2013-12-02 14:09, René Bastian wrote:

Le Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:32:15 -0500, adam vogt a écrit :

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Hello René,

It looks like you have another window manager open. You can only have one at a time. Yes: Gnome 2.30.2 I installed a recent xmonad (from tarball, etc.) $ xmonad --version => xmonad 0.11 -- I think I am nearer but:

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rbm@lenovo:~$ xmonad --replace X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Serial number of failed request: 7 Current serial number in output stream: 8 --------------------------------------------------------- gives the same.

!! After more then 10 years of Linux practice, I dont know how to not lauch a wm :)

I tried the maintenance mode [black terminal after rebooting] - as root and as user : it doesnt work ..

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I suggest upgrading xmonad to one that supports a --replace flag, (and then running xmonad --replace), or using:

It seems the -- replace option of Version 0.11 has no effect.

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http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.9.1/docs/XMonad-Util-Rep...

There are many other ways to make gnome start xmonad instead of metacity.

Regards, Adam

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM, René Bastian wrote:

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Hello,

I am new on this list.

I installed xmonad via Synaptic on Debian 6. & Gnome 2.30.2 The version of xmonadr seems to be "xmonad 0.9.1-2 + b1" I get the error message:

rbm@lenovo:~$ xmonad /home/rbm/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Serial number of failed request: 7 Current serial number in output stream: 8

What is wrong ?

René

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