DWM autostart about alttab HOT 4 CLOSED

xinitrc shell script and its foreground job are "main application" for X session. X exits when this foreground application exits. Your foreground application should be dwm, not alltab. Change last two lines to:

alttab -w 1 &
exec dwm

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Please show all relevant lines in your xinitrc,
and also specify what exactly do you mean by "exit to tty".

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my xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh

exec nitrogen --restore &

~/.config/status.sh &

redshift &

dunst &

xbindkeys -f ~/.xbindkeysrc &

picom -b &

[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge -I$HOME ~/.Xresources

exec dwm &
alttab -w 1

which works fine.

Usually i exit my dwm session, by pressing modkey + q. However this doesnt really work with the alttab running in the background. my Screen kind of freezes, i cant open a terminal as well.
What i can do, is that if i had a terminal already open, i can still write in it and use commands like "reboot". nitrogen is still running as well, hence why i still see my wallpaper.

I realized that killall alttab does quit dwm automatically, so this is what i would use.
It does not seem like a very pretty solution though.

quitting dwm is something i often do to recompile my WM, which is why i was wondering if this is something, easy to fix.

Edit: with quitting to tty i meant to quit the dwm session, to restart it again with startx

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thank you very much

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