Having a hard time figuring out the debugging steps for this behavior. I'll run some gpg command and, typically, about 20 seconds later a GUI Pinentry window will pop up where I type in my password and the command proceeds. Occasionally though, the prompt instantaneously appears in my terminal (without me changing any config). On other rare occasions, the GUI Pinentry will be instant. One time I noticed the GUI Pinentry was instant was when I was running on a single monitor. I typically have an external monitor connected to my laptop over HDMI. Another time I noticed I was getting prompted in my terminal was when my window manager had crashed, I killed the Xorg server process from a seperate TTY, then re-started my window manager. I'm running Manjaro Linux with StumpWM as the window manager. I'm not sure what other pieces of software or config are relevant to this.

My mouse pointer turns into a cross when there are no elements under it other than the root window. I've been having this issue with stumpwm since I installed it, but I know that a cross over the root window is a normal occurrence in twm or any other basic window manager. Can it be removed?

I don't run a desktop environment, but instead use a bare window manager (StumpWM ). Thus, my usual method for setting a desktop background is to run display -window root from a WM startup script, which does what I want. When using multiple monitors, the X root window stretches across both and includes dead space. Thus, running that command line causes the image to either be stretched or tiled across the entire window, which isn't useful. I can use -geometry to display an image on either monitor, but if I run that again (to view on both monitors) it overwrites the other. There doesn't seem to be any ability with display to display two images in one invocation. How can I use display to display different images on both monitors? Alternatively, how else can I get the "desktop background image" effect without a desktop environment?

I have in my .xinitrc the line dbus-launch --exit-with-session stumpwm. Occasionally, I'll want to kill everything that has to do with X, get back to a terminal, and start over. If I ps aux | grep stumpwm and kill the StumpWM process, the window manager dies, but everything with x11 still works. I can type in the window that currently has focus but I can't change focus or do any other window management. I also tried sudo kill -9 startx, no effect. I noticed another "x" process, xinit, and killing that also had no effect.

I use the latest Archlinux and stumpwm as my window manager with some Gnome goodies on the side (gnome-power-manager, gnome-settings-daemon and networkmanager applet). I tried to make Conkeror my default browser. I tried gconftool-2 and changed the /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http(s) to conkeror %s with no luck. From what I understand Gconf is migrating to GSettings in Gnome 3 but I am completely lost as to how to configure it. I logged in to a gnome-shell session and tried to change the preferred applications but the only available choices are FireFox and Epiphany. I've being googling for the past 2 hours without luck and resorted to the hardcore solution of symlinking /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/conkeror. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I would like to setup some Gnome keyboard shortcuts to be a prefix-key, so that I can add several shortcuts with the same prefix. Eg. I'd like to be able to have Super+x be a prefix key, with the next letter determining the application to launch: - Super+x f starts firefox - Super+x e starts emacs - Super+x t starts gnome-terminal Etc. Also, something like k as a prefix to workspace manipulation commands: - Super+k Left workspace left - Super+k 4 go to workspace 4 and so on. This is a natural analog to what emacs, tmux and other applications do with configurable shortcuts, and I can do this with the stumpwm window manager as well, but I wanted to try Unity on my new laptop and was trying to get the same efficient setup I had with stumpwm. Is this provided for in Gnome? Do I have to do some trickery to do this? It would be best if I could find a way to do this in gnome's keyboard shortcut editor.