Re: dmenu and xmonad in buster not working together

[Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>]

Philipp Kemmeter wrote:

> When I start dmenu, the input of neither mouse nor keyboard is registered
> anymore, and as xmonad freezes by purpouse until dmenu returns something, I'm
> stuck. The only way to work further is switching to a non-X terminal and
> killing dmenu.

FWIW, dmenu works fine for me with i3 on buster.

> Does anybody has any advice?

I suppose you could try running strace on the dmenu process from another
terminal; maybe that would give some clues.

regards,
mike