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69 lines
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#+title: My StumpWM setup
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#&summary
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How I've set up StumpWM on Trisquel
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#&
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#+license: bysa
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* My StumpWM setup
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I use StumpWM instead of e.g. Gnome. StumpWM is a tiling window manager, which
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means that it's a good window manager.
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** Problems
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I never had any problems with StumpWM until I upgraded to Trisquel 4.0 and
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Trisquel 4.5, after which StumpWM irregularly threw errors such as:
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#+BEGIN_SRC
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g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying
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GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
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#+END_SRC
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and also some fatal X errors which killed StumpWM and all its running
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programs. This naturally annoyed me. I soon realized that it had nothing to do
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with Trisquel, it was just that dependencies on things like D-Bus was getting
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on StumpWM's nerves. I had always used an Xsession file to login to StumpWM:
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#+BEGIN_SRC
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[Desktop Entry]
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Encoding=UTF-8
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Type=XSession
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Exec=stumpwm
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TryExec=stumpwm
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Name=StumpWM
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Comment=Stump window manager
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#+END_SRC
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but clearly, this wasn't good enough. Whenever I ran the default gnome-session
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and whatever window manager was associated to that, there were no problems. And
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while in gnome-session, I could always run:
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: stumpwm --replace
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to replace metacity or whatever with StumpWM. Except for an annoying
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gnome-panel and Gnome taking over some of my keybindings, this worked
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alright. The best thing was that when the fatal X error occured, only StumpWM
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was killed --- all windows were maintained. This made me realize that one could
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create a script which starts a new StumpWM instance whenever an old StumpWM
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crashes, to create the illusion of a continually running StumpWM.
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** Solution
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I added this to my ~.profile~:
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#+BEGIN_SRC sh
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if [ "$DISPLAY" ] ; then
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pkill stumpwm
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# Restart StumpWM when it crashes
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while [ 1 ] ; do
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stumpwm --replace
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pkill stumpwm
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done
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fi
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# Since StumpWM will continue forever, this .profile file will block
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# gnome-session from loading misc. crap.
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#+END_SRC
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You may also have to edit ~gnome-panel~ out of
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~/desktop/gnome/session/required_components~ in ~gconf-editor~.
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** Links
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+ [[http://stumpwm.antidesktop.net/][StumpWM]]
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+ [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/blobs/raw/master/home/.stumpwmrc][My .stumpwmrc]]
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