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kayli

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Registered: 2015-03-10

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[Solved] Xmonad: How do I cat a pipe when screen is frozen?

I'm running Xmonad with xmobar, and occasionally it freezes which the current window still responds to keys and mouseclicks. I looked this up on the Xmonad FAQs, and apparently it's caused by a full pipe that I need to cat (https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Frequen … _frozen.21). However, this is a bit hard when the window that responds to keys is not a terminal. Is there a good fix for this?

Last edited by kayli (2015-03-14 04:48:32)

kayli

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Re: [Solved] Xmonad: How do I cat a pipe when screen is frozen?

If anyone knows what logs, outputs, etc. I should be looking at, that would be helpful as well.

kayli

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Re: [Solved] Xmonad: How do I cat a pipe when screen is frozen?

Any takers?

mauritiusdadd

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Re: [Solved] Xmonad: How do I cat a pipe when screen is frozen?

Hi kayli,

However, this is a bit hard when the window that responds to keys is not a terminal. Is there a good fix for this?

I don't use Xmonad, so I can't help you very much, but it seems you already found a solution in the FAQs: if you don't have any usable terminal window when the freeze happens you can just switch to another tty (Ctrl-Alt-F2 for tty2 and so on...), run the commands from there and finally return to the tty where Xmonad is running.

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kayli

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Re: [Solved] Xmonad: How do I cat a pipe when screen is frozen?

Ah right. I completely forgot I could switch to another tty! Thanks for the help.