Re: [dev] [dwm] Several xinitrc processes running on Ubuntu

From: Raphael Proust <raphlalou_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:43:33 +0000

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:05 AM, clamiax <smoppy_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2012/11/5 Raphael Proust <raphlalou_AT_gmail.com>
>>
>> How do you restart dwm?
>
> meta-shift-q
>
>>
>> How do you invoke it in your .xinitrc?
>
> exec dwm
>
>>
>> Basically, paste your .xinitrc (or a simplified version that still
>> exposes the behaviour you have) to get some help. (Your dwm/config.h
>> might be useful, depending on your setting.)
>
> I may reproduce the problem with a vanilla config.h and an xinitrc file
> containing only the line "exec dwm".
>
> I hope not getting into one of Ubuntu many weird windows-like problems.

Either that or your dm is making something funky. I can observe the
same on this Ubuntu machine running lightdm and a similar .desktop and
.xinitrc. (Does not happen in Arch with sldm.)

pstree(1) indicate that the old processes are abandoned by lightdm and
passed over to init. Not sure why.

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Raphaƫl Proust
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