On Tuesday 11 October 2011 21:06:13 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Tuesday 11 October 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 October 2011 16:06:11 Andras Mantia wrote: > > > From here: > > > "If KWin crashes without restarting privacy is leaked but the system is > > > hardly useable due to missing window manager. This situation can savely > > > be ignored as a corner case as KWin normaly restart." > > > > > > This is not true, the system can be used without a window manager and if > > > you happen to have a running terminal or start one, it is possible to > > > start a new window manager (which might not be kwin) and access > > > everything. > > > > yes if you have a terminal open and if it is the top most of stacking > > order > > it is possible to start another window manager. If that is not the case > > you are not able to start anything as KRunner or kickoff cannot be opened. > > You can also switch to a text-mode console (Ctrl+F1 etc), set DISPLAY, and > start the window manager there. Yes but you have to login to be able to do that and goint to a tty killing kwin, removing the lock file and starting kwin again is certainly a valid way to end the screen locker. That's the same as currently going to the tty and killing kscreenlocker.
Cheers Martin > > Alex
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