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XMonad Logs | How to check if a key binding did fire or not?

I am using Xmonad for a while and it is working fine but some of the key bindings are not working and I want to see the log to diagnose the problem. BUT I am not able to find the log files for this? Any idea where these are located?

UPDATE : I have a binding like this : 

, ((myModMask, xK_l), spawn "scrot -s 'Selected_%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' -e 'mv $f ~/Pictures/screenshots/'")

But the key combination does not produce anything, and I am not able to figure out if the command is spawned or not. copy pasting on terminal works but through key combination it does not....How should I diagnose this?

Linux archlinux 5.2.9-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 16 11:29:43 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks

Solution

  • This is a problem with scrot itself. Details :

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Screen_capture#scrot

    Note: In some window managers (dwmAUR, xmonad and possibly others) scrot -s does not work properly when running via window manager's keyboard shortcut, this can be worked around by prepending scrot invocation with a short pause sleep 0.2; scrot -s.