On 07/15/10 09:34, Owain Ainsworth wrote:
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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Forgive for asking something obvious, but:
I boot computer, login to console, start X
Problem type #1, X crashes, I am returned to console, not logged off,
can continue working.
Problem # 2, X crashes, I am logged off and must login from console like
I just booted computer.
So, X takes over after console and only returns to console unless really
screwed up? So not being logged off is a "less bad" crash?
Thanks
