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

Question

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

They usually just go out to stdout / stderr. – Chris Stryczynski Dec 23 '19 at 11:40 — Chris Stryczynski, Dec 23 '19 at 11:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 31 '19 at 12:20

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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.

answered Dec 31 '19 at 12:20

harsh atal

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You might also be interested in https://github.com/naelstrof/maim – Chris Stryczynski Dec 31 '19 at 16:07

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

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