On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:40, Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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...
That would suck to lose all that if you forgot after 31 years about your hack. :) I also have a habit of running killall sleep, so I'd have to make a symlink to sleep called "/bin/\ Really\ don\'t\ kill\ this\ copy\ of\ sleep,\ you\'ll\ regret\ it\ \(think\ about\ the\ uptime\!\)." Sigh, this is so offtopic :) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ "It took people a long time to figure out which machine was [mooing], and even longer to figure out how. But for some reason it didn't take them any time at all to figure that I'd done it." -- Paul Tomblin on ASR
