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From: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:32:32
Message-Id: 20081017133224.GA10435@eriks
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console by Geralt
1 On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:23:55PM +0200, Geralt wrote:
2 > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Erik Hahn <erik_hahn@×××.de> wrote:
3 > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:26PM +0200, Geralt wrote:
4 > >> Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim
5 > >> (and I suppose that gdm and kdm have this feature?) it is much more
6 > >> work than checking in xdm is slim is still up and if not restarting it
7 > >> (since xdm is slim's parent process it gets even informed about it, so
8 > >> no polling would be necessary!).
9 > >
10 > > xdm isn't slim's parent process, slim is a replacement for xdm. Or do
11 > > you mean the xdm init script?
12 > I meant the xdm init script, since I thought we were talking all the
13 > time about the xdm init script when saying xdm. Did I misunderstand
14 > something in the previous posts?
15
16 No, I just wasn't absolutely sure. "xdm" was mentioned once as
17 "/etc/init.d/xdm", once someone said something about "a xdm".
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