By the way, if you use a similar script you probably want to add a "rm -f /tmp/stopstump" before the while loop, otherwise you won't manage to restart the WM if you use a login manager since the script will quit immediately. I noticed that the hard way...
You can set the DISPLAY environment variable to connect to X from any terminal. In bash/zsh this should do the trick:
export DISPLAY=:0
Then your commands will work.
I have a dirty trick to handle WM crashes: instead of starting the stumpwm binary directly I use a shell script that does something like:
while [ ! -f /tmp/stopstump ]
do
stumpwm
sleep 1
done
This way if stumpwm crashes or freeze and I have have to kill it it's restarted automatically without killing my X session and running programs. If I really want to quit the WM and end the session I have to "touch /tmp/stopstump" first.
A bit ugly, but it served me well.
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On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:58 PM, Eric Ihli <address@hidden> wrote:
Sometimes my graphic environment locks up. I think this is a StumpWM issue since my keyboard and mouse continue to "work". I can move the mouse around and switch to a different tty using ctrl-alt-f<n>. But nothing works in the tty where I ran `startx`.
What can be done from a different tty to troubleshoot/fix the issue? I've tried `stumpish` from another tty but I get the error `xprop: unable to open display`.
Other possibly relevant info is that my `.xinitrc` launches StumpWM with `dbus-launch --with-exit-session --sh-syntax stumpwm`.
Thanks,
Eric