Hello, The replace flag is already done: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=99
A prettier message about pre-existing window managers or changing the default to --replace could still be an option. -- Adam * On Tuesday, October 05 2010, Joachim Breitner wrote: >Hi Timo, > >thanks for your bug report. > >Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2010, 20:11 +0300 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors: >> Package: xmonad >> Version: 0.9.1-2+b1 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Steps to reproduce: >> 1) Start some other wm >> 2) Run xmonad >> >> Expected results: >> 2) xmonad informs the user that a wm is already running and exits >> >> Actual results: >> 2) xmonad prints >> >> /home/lindi/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-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 >> >> and leaves the user completely puzzled. Please consider printing >> something like >> >> "xmonad: Another window manager already running, exiting..." >> >> instead or in addition to the above error message. > >I’d say it should just replace the running window manager, but if that >is not easily possible, you are right. I’m therefore CC’ing the xmonad >mailing list: Is there a taker for this issue? > >Greetings, >Joachim > >-- >Joachim "nomeata" Breitner >Debian Developer > [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C > JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata >_______________________________________________ >xmonad mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
