Re: How to restart x11/StumpWM from a different tty.

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.

--
Lionel Flandrin

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:58 PM, Eric Ihli <[email protected]> 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