[Xmonad] Dynamically reloading Config

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Apr 13 07:10:28 EDT 2007


v.dijk.bas:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to dynamically reload the Config?
> 
> In a previous thread dons mentioned mod-ctrl-shift-q which calls
> 'restart' which exec()s itself. However when I do that xmonad closes
> and I'm back at my xdm prompt.
> 
> Maybe that has to do with my ~/.xsession:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> xsetroot -gray                        &
> Esetroot ~/pictures/lastlight1280.jpg &
> firefox http://mail.google.com/mail &
> /home/bas/bin/xmonad
> 
> Bas van Dijk
> 
> P.S.
> What about using hs-plugins for dynamic configurations?

Too heavyweight for little xmonad, in my opinion (and sjanssen's).

-- Don


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