There are those who would have you believe that Colin Watson wrote: > If you upgrade sawfish to the one in unstable at the moment, don't > follow the instruction that says: > > execute 'kill -9 `pidof sawfish`;sawfish&' in a terminal > > I did so without thinking, and of course lost all my state. I don't see > any reason not to use the old 'sawfish-client -f restart', apart from > the cosmetic problem of the spurious error message, but no doubt I'll > find out as a result of the bug report I've just filed. 'kill -1' might > work, but I've no intention of blowing up my X session again just to > find out ... >
What do you mean when you say you lost all of your state? FWIW, I did this on my laptop and didn't have any problems.
