Comment #8 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 I get your point about preventing apps to write to dead file descriptors not being XMonad's job. If I start X in the way I described I should somehow prevent this myself. However I think the behaviour of XMonad is still not optimal since it shouldn't crash if an application attempts that. Or at least it shouldn't do so silently. It could leave a message in xmonad.errors. Wasn't there a thread about unifiying error logging on the mailing list lately? I can't seem to find it. -- 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