On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:24:33PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | dman wrote: | | > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | > | > | So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X | > | lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session | > | from the same machine when it happens? | > | > It can happen. If X isn't responding, for some reason, but it is | > consuming all keyboard/mouse input then that keyboard and mouse can't | > do anything unless X decides to respond. | | It was suggested off list that Gnome might be contributing here. I am | interested in helping other people who might have single machine | situations. Any comments about choice of window managers in this regard?
I use GNOME 1.4 with Sawfish. I like it a lot. I've tried various other window managers in various contexts including mwm, fvwm2, afterstep, windowmaker, elightenment, and CDE and I have found that Sawfish is the best of them. | > This is why it can be very | > useful to have another keyboard attached to the system in some way, | > either a console on a serial line or via ssh from another machine. | > | > I've had some X lockups before, but usually ssh/telnet-ing in and | > killing the offending app (not necessarily all of X) will correct the | > situation. | > | > BTW, networking 2 machines is really easy. All you need are a couple | > lines in /etc/interfaces and a (crossover) cable connecting the 2 | > NICs. Alternatively you could get a switch or hub and use a | > straight-through cable for each NIC to the switch/hub. | | | Actually the NIC's and cable are in place. I just have to do the basic | research here. This is a part time project right now since I still earn | money in the M$ world. Ok, since you have the NICs and cable, I'll send you a snippet of my /etc/network/interfaces file when I get home. Just cut-n-paste it in (adjusting any data as necessary) and you will have a connection. Getting application-level connections to be useful can be a different story, but the network-level connection is pretty easy once you have the hardware. -D
