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tossenxD

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Registered: 2020-09-24

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bspwmrc does not run when using xinitrc with startx command

I am trying to get bspwm to work on a newly installed Arch. I have followed the wiki, using Xorg, bspwm and sxhkd.
In my xinitrc I have "sxhkd &" and "exec bspwm".
sxhkd works and I am able to configure using .config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc.
bspwm on the other hand, starts (and works) but does not get configured by .config/bspwm/bspwmrc.
Right now I only get my polybar and other configurations if I manually run .config/bspwm/bspwmrc after startx.
I cannot figure out what "exec bspwm" is running and am not able to narrow the problem further down.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: bspwmrc does not run when using xinitrc with startx command

If that's your complete xinitrc, see the link in my signature…

I'd debug this by having startx run a terminal (eg. xterm) and start bspwm from there to see error messages etc.
You could also "strace bspwm 2>&1 | grep bspwmrc" to see whether it tries to open the file.

If running bspwm from an interactive shell works, there's likely some environment issue which you could debug with printenv.

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