The documented restart was `pkill -x lisgd && socktop-gestures &`. pkill exits
non-zero when it matches nothing, so `&&` short-circuits and the daemon
silently does not start when none was running -- you swipe, get nothing, and
reasonably blame the config change you just made. socktop-gestures exec'd lisgd
with no guard, so nothing downstream caught it.
Rather than only fixing the one-liner, move the invariant into the tool: it now
exits non-zero if a daemon is already running, and --replace stops the old one
first (waiting for it to actually exit). This is the failure the README itself
flags as gotcha 3, so a false success there is expensive.
Verified against a live daemon: refusal, --help, bad-option exit codes, and a
clean pid handover under --replace with the carousel still working.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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