Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
Maybe you're running something like gnome-session as your session manager (the last thing in your .xsession). If you're like me and don't use full-blown GNOME, the last thing your .xsession does is often to run your window manager, and thus being advised to kill it is bad news. Looking before I leaped would have helped, I admit :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]