Re: Debian Users...
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:40, Tim Connors <tconnors+deblaptop@astro.swin.edu.au>
wrote:
> > Fvwm is cool. It takes a fair bit of configuration, but it's fast,
> > small and absolutely bomb-proof in my experience. And several of the
> > newer WMs still don't match its features...
>
> Bulletproof my oath. One thing you *never* *ever* want to segfault is your
> window manager. Because if you have been logged in for 60 days, there is a
> lot of state stored on your desktop[1] that you don't want lost when the
I learnt an interesting trick from a friend at university (Swinburne in fact).
He had his .xinitrc configured such that the window manager would run as a
child process, and the process that the X server recognised as the window
manager was "sleep 1000000000". That way he could restart his window manager
while remaining logged in, and if the window manager crashed it was no big
deal. /bin/sleep is extremely unlikely to crash...
If you have problems with the reliability of your window manager or if you
want to change window managers on the fly then using the same trick would be
a good idea.
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