From: Diarmaid O'Loughlin (dollar at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Wed 26 May 1999 - 22:13:54 IST
Well I just had it crash on me when I left it to go play the match but
that was after playing Q3test. Does anyone konw of any issues on trying to
connect a linux vresion of the game to a win98 version? When I try join a
game o a linux box the thing halts. (not crash I might add). I'm using Rh
6 and a voodoo card.
D.
Dollar at domain csn.ul.ie
D at domain linuxmail.org
On Wed, 26 May 1999, kevin lyda wrote:
> "John P. Looney" burst across the net:
> > Not really. When a WindowManager starts up, and manages windows, all
> >windows it manages are, according to X "Owned by enlightenment". So, if it
> >crashes, or is kill -9'd all the Windows are killed too.
>
> in actual experience i've never known that to be true. i've killed and
> restarted window managers over and over and never lost a no-wm window
> back when i used .xinitrc type setups (the last command was xterm, and
> when i would accidentally log out of that i was pretty bummed though).
>
> this was with all the wm's i played with - twm, tvtwm, ctwm, wmx, wm2,
> fvwm, and fvwm2. hey, they're all out there, you have to try them!
> and with the wmx and wm2 wm's it took a recompile to reconfigure them
> so i actually had a shell script that would control the window manager;
> looking for a wmx.new and if finding it moving it into wmx and restarting.
> an almost daily occurance when i was first using it.
>
> i remember looking through the wmx source code and seeing how it grabbed
> new windows at startup (it had a bug) and it was a rather simple loop.
> poke around for it, it's pretty tiny and readable.
>
> > Worth every penny is our Rasterman. If he'd release a stable window
> >manager, that didn't take X out every few hours, that is.
>
> in fairness, i haven't seen enlightenment crash yet in redhat 6.0 which
> i find stunning considering my previous attempt at it. and i leave x
> sessions running for weeks. i'm sure it will considering how many bugs
> it had at the beginning, and i fear seeing how much memory it consumes,
> but methinks you're exaggerating a tad bit. :)
>
> kevin
>
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