Re: Find the display
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >>>> "BS" == Bart Schuller <schuller@lunatech.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> BS> Is policy the one and only reason for wanting stuff? If this fixes what
> BS> I hope it does, the the "need" has an "or else you may need to hard
> BS> reset your machine because you can't even switch out of X" attached to
> BS> it.
>
> I need to restart sawfish, because sawfish crash each times a user upgrade
> sawfish. unstable is unstable...
>
> [...]
>
> BS> Isn't there some kind of signal that sawfish interprets as "I need to
> BS> restart"? That would solve all problems.
>
> No, the only way is sawfish-client -f restart.
THe correct thing would be to fail if sawfish is running, in the pre-inst.
Force the user to upgrade at a console. Lot's of things like XDM and GDM,
do this aswell. It is the only sane way. Folks who do upgrades, are always
advised to do it from a tty, and not in X, anyway.
Ben
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