On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:16:21PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > What command are you using to switch away? > try 'startx -- :2'. ;) i for one use 'kdm -debug 7 -nodaemon' for relatively obvious reasons.
> I've seen a few black screens in the past few months, but they're > correlated with running web browsers (opera for instance). Sounds > mostly like an X server problem. > not the entire screen is black, but only the xterm window. > The select-timeout is (someone reminded me) from the sessionMgt > resource. > indeed, with +sm it does not spin any more. but it does not change anything. for the hell of it, suddenly i can't fully reproduce the problem any more. the xterm is still black, but it does accept keyboard input, and after i ctrl-c'd kdm, things seem to be back to normal. ?-}
