On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:18:47AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote:
> I just wrote a script to check if from a terminal or not, ugly hack,
> but works.
>
> But how can a problem with X result in logging a user off?
> I have seen many X crashes from different program problems, but they
> never logged me off before. Sure, X quit, but I was still able to
> restart X.
>
> What is "special" about this situation? Or is this common and just
> new to me?
If you crash or otherwise bugger up the window manager causing it to
exit, then you will log off if that is the process that maintains your X
session.
I don't see how that is non-obvious.
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