Re: Another possible slink goal (multipackages users profile)
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> > Finally, as I've thought about this I've become concerned about
> > long-lasting sessions. Asking people to log out and log back in again
> > is not a whole lot more friendly than asking them to reboot. And, some
> > kinds of sessions (some window managers, screen) don't make it easy to
> > update their environment. Are we planning on modifying these as well?
>
> "exec shell". Easy as cake. And don't dare to suggest to have a shell
> that automatically rereads a configfile when it's changed. That can give
> highly surprising and wrong results. (somebody actually suggested it
> once).
How does this deal with xdm? I have to restart my session?
Jules
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