Keynav crashes when already daemonized about keynav HOT 4 OPEN

keynav shouldn't care whether another instance is running, but perhaps the error message when a key binding fails should be better?

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It's also debatable that what keynav does here is actually a crash since it exits intentionally when a key binding fails -
https://github.com/jordansissel/keynav/blob/master/keynav.c#L1907-L1910

What would you like to see instead of this behavior?

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I thought it was a crash because the message comes from XOrg instead of keynav, thus printing something along the lines of "Failed to daemonize. Maybe another program/instance is grabbing the keys?" would inform the user that the error is not something catastrophic or security related, like the XOrg message seems to be.

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Exactly, some program like clipper or fcitx clipboard binding ctrl+; will cause keynav cannot start.

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