On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Brian S. Julin wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Jos Hulzink wrote: > > KGI used to set a task to sleep when it was mapped away from a display. > > This didn't work always, and with some help from #kernelnewbies, I came to > > the conclusion that it isn't even what you want.
Stupid question from an outsider: couldn't it be possible to make the application still run by making it use an offscreen buffer while not "visible" because of VT switching? It would be really annoying, imho, if the application stopped altogether... Fabio Alemagna
