[Xmonad] shellPrompt kills xmonad

Tobias Hammerschmidt tobias.hammerschmidt at gmx.de
Fri Oct 26 17:42:56 EDT 2007


Andrea Rossato schrieb:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:53:15PM +0200, Tobias Hammerschmidt wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I've got an issue with the shellPrompt extension here. Everytime I'm 
>>  entering some keys in the shellPrompt xmonad crashes. Sometimes it crashes 
>>  after the first pressed key (e.g. 'a') and sometimes after the second key 
>>  (e.g. 'c' than arbritrary letter). However it does not crash, if I open the 
>>  shellPrompt and exit it by hitting ESC. I only notice this behaviour on 
>>  NixOS. The same config is working on debian etch without crashing.
> 
> 
> this was due to the fact the ShellPrompt expected to find bash in /bin.
> 
> I pushed a patch so that we will now just run "bash" hoping to find it
> in the PATH.
> 
> I think that XMonandContrib.Run that should be exporting safe
> functions.
> 
> Andrea
> 
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This patch works for me. Thank you!


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