when calling die and the last character of the string corresponds to ':', die() will call perror(). See util.c Also change EXIT_SUCCESS to EXIT_FAILURE
@@ -1653,9 +1653,7 @@ spawn(const Arg *arg)
close(ConnectionNumber(dpy));
setsid();
execvp(((char **)arg->v)[0], (char **)arg->v);
- fprintf(stderr, "dwm: execvp %s", ((char **)arg->v)[0]);
- perror(" failed");
- exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+ die("dwm: execvp '%s' failed:", ((char **)arg->v)[0]);
}