Re: X server crashes

2002-04-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
nohup" for your X applications. :-) Hmm, sounds like the idea I suggested might be a simple addition to this proxy... Alexander Maryanovsky. - Original Message - From: Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Apr 2002 11:46:27 +0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: X server c

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-24 Thread Alex Shnitman
Another good piece of software that is worth mentioning in the context of this thread is xmove, which can be found at ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/xmove/ or as the Debian package "xmove". Basically it's an X server proxy that allows you to move X applications connected to it from one X server t

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
t; > <http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mkropfbe/xray.html> ? > > If you mention those two, then one obvious alternative should also be > mentioned: Xnest (which comes, e.g. with XFree). Xnest is indeed very cool, and I use it a lot, but it won't solve the original posters&

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:22:39AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:41:39 +0300 > > "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >... snipped long talk about VNC > I think many of the crashes of X servers in Linux are h

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002, Ilya Konstantinov wrote about "Re: X server crashes": > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 14:55, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Alexander does have a point here. Of course, there are certain things > which can be kept on server only (e.g. server-side stored pixmaps),

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 14:55, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Hmm, I guess this was my confusion... I'm a Java developer, so I'm used to >everything display related to be event driven. That is, in Java (AWT and Swing at >least), the application is supposed to always keep all the state, and be able

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-22 Thread Oron Peled
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:55:07 +0200 "Alexander Maryanovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not wait until it's reconnected Answer is in next paragraph... > > However, there is a lot of "state" stored in > > the X-server (Graphics-Context etc.), > Hmm, I guess this was my confusion... I'm a Jav

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-22 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
l of a sudden: KABBBOMMM. > Sorry, all your state is lost... Well, like I said, I thought the applications were supposed to keep all the state, not the X-server. Alexander Maryanovsky. - Original Message - From: Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:22:39AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:41:39 +0300 > "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >... snipped long talk about VNC > > I'm very well familiar with VNC, thanks. However you should remember > that vncserver is an X-server for the app

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-21 Thread Oron Peled
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:41:39 +0300 "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... snipped long talk about VNC I'm very well familiar with VNC, thanks. However you should remember that vncserver is an X-server for the applications that use it (while at the same time talking a different protocol to

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: X server crashes": > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:50:10 +0200 > "Alexander Maryanovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I guess I have two questions: > > 1. What is the technical reason processes crash

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Most X server crashes that happend to me was from the (shitty) xfs font server found under redhat. Hetz On Sunday 21 April 2002 23:04, Oron Peled wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:50:10 +0200 > > "Alexander Maryanovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I guess I

Re: X server crashes

2002-04-21 Thread Oron Peled
the processes and the > X server which would delegate everything to it, make X server > crashes transparent to the processes and allow restarting > the X server (again transparently to the processes) when it > goes down? It seems like a fairly simple thing to do... You could put a

X server crashes

2002-04-21 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
Hi, After posting this on gnubies and receiving no answer, posting here, in hope to receive some :-) A co-worker of mine complained to me that the X server crashes sometimes and along with it all the processes using it. Now, I'm not a big unix/linux expert, but it seemed kind of stran