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Tempest002

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Registered: 2020-08-26

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Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

Recently I got lightdm to work, but this seems to effect dwm in some way.

Before lightdm I used "startx" to start dwm and other stuff. I put my settings from ".xinitrc" in a ".xprofile" file
and everything works fine besides one thing:

I cant execute my bash scripts with keybindings anymore! (dwmblocks cant execute my scripts either, but I think its the same problem)
Normal programms like alacritty or brave work normal.
And the scripts themselves work fine, when I run them in the terminal.

Sadly I got no real clues why this is happening.
The only hint I got is that neofetch now shows "DE: custom", it didnt show this when I used startx.

I link a few files below:
.xprofile:  http://ix.io/2vqy
config.def.h-snippet: http://ix.io/2vqA

Last edited by Tempest002 (2020-08-27 22:50:25)

seth

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

Don't fork setxkbmap, xrandr and xwallpaper.

Are "my bash scripts" in $PATH?

("echo $PATH > /tmp/path.dbg" in your xprofile - the $PATH in the interactive shell is irrelevant)

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Tempest002

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

Don't fork setxkbmap, xrandr and xwallpaper.

I guess I dont really need setxkbmap if I set it with loadkeys, but how should I run xrandr and xwallpaper?
Should I put them into .bash_profile or use the autostart patch of dwm or something?

And yes my scripts folder is in $PATH, already checked that.

[ins]/home/sebi/Scripte[/ins]:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

seth

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

Don't fork == remove the trailing "&" - otherwise you're provoking race conditions.

How *exactly* did you check that?
Again: the output in your interactive shell (a terminal running bash) is irrelevant here. You want to know whether the correct $PATH exists in xprofile.

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Trilby

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

How or where did you check the PATH exactly?  Where is /home/sebi/Scripte added to your PATH?

EDIT: too slow ...

Last edited by Trilby (2020-08-27 20:43:38)

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Tempest002

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

@seth, sorry took a sec to understand what you mean.
Now I put the echo command you gave me in my .xprofile and here is path.dbg

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

And behold, my script folder is not there.

What can I do to fix it?

seth

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

export the extended $PATH in xprofile.

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Tempest002

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

It worked, my keybindings work again!

Thank you for the second time

2ManyDogs

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Re: Strange behaviour of dwm with bash scripts [Solved]

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