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Re: XBanner on remote display - solved!



On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 04:39:39PM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote:

> Moving 'exit 0' to the end of the script solves the problem. Is this a bug
> in the xbanner package?

Not really - there's no telling where a remote X session might come
from, or what sort of machine's on the other end.  If it's relatively
far away in network terms or the remote machine is under resourced,
then attempting to display the banner might be a bad idea.

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Mark Brown  mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk   (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
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