From: Justin Mason (jm at domain netnoteinc.com)
Date: Wed 26 May 1999 - 12:01:29 IST
Vincent Cunniffe said:
> I just witnessed an interesting email exchange on the Enlightenment
> mailing list : one of the users at a site managed to xkill Enlightenment,
> dropping the whole machine back to raw X server and losing literally
> about 50 xterms used to manage all of the machines on site.
>
> The admin mailed the enlightenment list going 'heeeeeeeelp' and
> Raster (main author of Enlightenment) mailed him back a raw X program
> in C to search through the raw windows list, find the relevant processes,
> and sneakily reattach them to the newly running version of Enlightenment
> without losing any of the data at all :-)
>
> This was in front of a snide manager who was making comments about
> how unsupported Linux was :-)
If the window manager is not the last foreground process in the .xsession
file, you're free to kill and restart any number of wms (Enlightenment or
otherwise).
Surely the user could just telnet in, or even use one of the xterms still
running, and just start a new wm process? I've had to do this now and
again since I first saw X, with X11R4.
Does Enlightenment require some kind of special custom code to do this old
X11 trick?
--j.
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