Re: sawfish heads-up
There are those who would have you believe that Colin Watson wrote:
> If you upgrade sawfish to the one in unstable at the moment, don't
> follow the instruction that says:
>
> execute 'kill -9 `pidof sawfish`;sawfish&' in a terminal
>
> I did so without thinking, and of course lost all my state. I don't see
> any reason not to use the old 'sawfish-client -f restart', apart from
> the cosmetic problem of the spurious error message, but no doubt I'll
> find out as a result of the bug report I've just filed. 'kill -1' might
> work, but I've no intention of blowing up my X session again just to
> find out ...
>
What do you mean when you say you lost all of your state? FWIW, I did
this on my laptop and didn't have any problems.
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