You are right about how X exits. If launched from kdm/gdm it closes X when
the window manager exits. When run stand alone using xinit or similar, it
stays running. The whole xstartup file is basically a copy of how xinit has
always worked. Beside my personal reasons for not changing the default, the
best reason to me is that it changes how TigerVNC works from all previous
unix implementations. I know that will end up biting many more than me. I
like the fact that you can change the behavior if needed with the -fg switch
for those that need the different behavior.
Robert
On Mar 11, 2011 7:38 PM, "DRC" <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> If you are using a display manager (gdm, etc.) then it will log you out if
the WM crashes or exits. However, not everyone uses a display manager. If
you are running the X server as a standalone application, then I think it
will remain running if the WM crashes. Maybe I'm wrong, though. Personally,
I find the approach of auto exiting Xvnc more palatable, but those who want
to do that still can. It just won't be the default.
>
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Martin Koegler <mkoeg...@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 02:56:51PM -0500, Robert Goley wrote:
>>> You have been more fortunate then. My users always seem to find
>>> those unknown or unlikely crashes or closes. We have used KDE/GNOME
>>> in the past but they are kind of "heavy" and slow down the VNC
>>> session performance when using it over lower bandwidth connections.
>>> We use windows managers like jwm or openbox + lxpanel to provide a
>>> desktop session similar to Window's RDP sessions with all the
>>> graphical features turned off. This also allows for restricted the
>>> applications that users have access to. Keeps it simpler for them
>>> that way too.
>>
>> It would be interessting to compare this to behaviour of local X
>> display managers:
>>
>> They must kill the X server at some point of time too, regardless if
>> you use a failsafe session or KDE - how do they handle this decision?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin Kögler
>>
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