One thing I noticed in Netscape Communicator, there seems to be no way of
switching off the flashing cursor during composition.
On other X applications (not Linux though) I noticed that if I switched off
the flashing cursor (eg in nedit) the X server did not crash as often. In
fact I proved it to myself once by deliberately switching On the cursor then
iconising (or losing mouse focus); then after about an hour X crashed.
I blame the netscape crashing problem to bad X handling. I sspect Netscape
is doing something actively to X periodically even if it is iconised or does
not have mouse focus (I mean Netscape browser, not just Netscape
communicator).
Maybe it's the starry icon thing.

Regards,

Jill.

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Elec. Eng. Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raoul Golan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> enterfornone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Netscape has never killed Linux bad enough to need a reboot 
> but it has
> > killed X and regualrly kills itself.
> I've seen netscape kill X too.  Beats me how that could happen.
> Before this happens netscape hangs X, and when I go into a text
> console for a kill -9 on netscape, it dies and brings X down with
> it.


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