[Nix-dev] Re: xmonad

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Bas van Dijk" <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com>
writes:

> Then I read in upstart-jobs/xserver.nix that the users ~/.xsession is
> also sourced. So I thought I can just put `xmonad` in my ~/.xsession
> and it should just work.

Right, that's how I start my window manager.

> However when reading further I see that after sourcing the users
> ~/.xsession other commands (windowmanager and sessionCmd) are
> executed. I don't like that because when I close xmonad I expect to
> return to the loginmanager.

The only command that's potentially executed after sourcing `.xsession'
is "twm" iff the `windowManager' attribute is "twm", so that shouldn't
be a problem.

Thanks,
Ludo'.