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    copied!<p>New to XMonad and loving it so far. I have a fairly vanilla / regular XMonad setup and am having problems with <strong>dmenu</strong>. When I login and hit <code>mod+p</code> nothing happens. If I then open a terminal and hit <code>xmonad --restart</code> then <code>mod+p</code>, <code>dmenu</code> will be working. </p> <p>There must be something wrong with my <code>xmonad.hs</code>? I tried a no-customization setup of XMonad and things were working normally (i.e. <code>dmenu</code> was working after login). </p> <p>My questions:</p> <ol> <li>Is there something wrong with my <code>xmonad.hs</code>?</li> <li>Why won't <code>dmenu</code> work unless I <code>xmonad --restart</code> ?</li> <li>Could something fail in <code>xmonad.start</code> that would prevent dmenu from loading properly when starting xmonad?</li> </ol> <p>Here are my files (borrowed from <a href="https://github.com/overthink/dotfiles" rel="nofollow">overthink</a>). :</p> <p><strong>xmonad.hs</strong></p> <pre><code>import System.IO import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks import XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys) import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe) import XMonad.Hooks.ICCCMFocus myWorkspaces = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6"] myManageHook = composeAll [ className =? "Gimp" --&gt; doFloat , className =? "Vncviewer" --&gt; doFloat ] main = do xmproc &lt;- spawnPipe "/usr/bin/xmobar /home/aaron/.xmobarrc" xmonad $ defaultConfig { terminal = "urxvt" } { manageHook = manageDocks &lt;+&gt; manageHook defaultConfig , startupHook = takeTopFocus &gt;&gt; setWMName "LG3D" -- fix for Java apps , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP xmobarPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc , ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" . shorten 50 } , modMask = mod4Mask -- Rebind Mod to the Windows key , workspaces = myWorkspaces } `additionalKeys` [ ((mod4Mask .|. shiftMask, xK_l), spawn "gnome-screensaver-command --lock") ] </code></pre> <p><strong>xmonad.desktop</strong></p> <pre><code>[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Xmonad-**** Comment=Ligthweight, pretentious tiling window manager Exec=xmonad.start Icon=xmonad.png Type=XSession </code></pre> <p><strong>xmonad.start</strong></p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash xrdb -merge .Xresources trayer --edge top --align right --SetDockType true --SetPartialStrut true --expand true --widthtype percent --width 10 --heighttype pixel --height 20 --transparent true --alpha 0 --tint 0x333333 &amp; # settings daemon is a prereq for some other gnome apps gnome-settings-daemon &amp; # Network monitor (connections, vpns) applet in tray if [ -x /usr/bin/nm-applet ] ; then nm-applet --sm-disable &amp; fi # volume indicator in tray if [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-sound-applet ] ; then gnome-sound-applet &amp; fi eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start) export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET export GNOME_KEYRING_PID #exec xmonad dbus-launch --exit-with-session xmonad </code></pre> <p>Thanks for your help!</p>
 

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