Hi, for what purpose slim offers a dameon mode? What is the difference between starting slim in dameon and in "normal" mode ?
Meino Geralt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-16 17:45]: > Hi, > > actually there is nothing wrong with slim, you have to remember that > slim is an X-application, so killing X also kills all applications > using X (including X-based login-managers). To fix this xdm needs to > restart slim, or you use /etc/inittab. You should also realize that > using /etc/inittabs respawn option is no workaround but a perfectly > legal solution to automatically respawn your graphical environment. > In Archlinux for example it's the suggested way to handle this. > > Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim > (and I suppose that gdm and kdm have this feature?) it is much more > work than checking in xdm is slim is still up and if not restarting it > (since xdm is slim's parent process it gets even informed about it, so > no polling would be necessary!). > > > > Geralt. > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-16 03:54]: > >> Hello, > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, > >> > get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > >> > (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the > >> > root console instead of getting a new login screen of slim. > >> > > >> > How can I prevent this? > >> > > >> I use > >> x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >% /dev/null > >> in /etc/inittab, instead of /etc/init.d/xdm. This seems to solve the > >> issue. SLiM 1.3.1 seems a bit buggy, however, on Gentoo (although > >> didn't try on other distributions). Version 1.3.0 was more stable. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Liviu > >> > > > > I am using slim 1.3.0.... > > I will try the inittab-patch, but it is only a workaround. > > By the way: Is there a way to use different backgrounds for > > slim and the desktop. I am using Icewm and that background > > was overwritten by slim... > > > > Thanks a lot for your help! > > > > KLind regards, > > mcc > > > > -- > > Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments > > unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. > > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows. > > > > > -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
