Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

Hi,

 for what purpose slim offers a dameon mode? What is
 the difference between starting slim in dameon and
 in "normal" mode ?

 Meino






Geralt <usr.gentoo@××××××××××.com> [08-10-16 17:45]:
> Hi,
>
> actually there is nothing wrong with slim, you have to remember that
> slim is an X-application, so killing X also kills all applications
> using X (including X-based login-managers). To fix this xdm needs to
> restart slim, or you use /etc/inittab. You should also realize that
> using /etc/inittabs respawn option is no workaround but a perfectly
> legal solution to automatically respawn your graphical environment.
> In Archlinux for example it's the suggested way to handle this.
>
> Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim
> (and I suppose that gdm and kdm have this feature?) it is much more
> work than checking in xdm is slim is still up and if not restarting it
> (since xdm is slim's parent process it gets even informed about it, so
> no polling would be necessary!).
>
>
>
> Geralt.
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
> > Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com> [08-10-16 03:54]:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
> >> >  The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode,
> >> >  get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
> >> >  (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the
> >> >  root console instead of getting a new login screen of slim.
> >> >
> >> >  How can I prevent this?
> >> >
> >> I use
> >> x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >% /dev/null
> >> in /etc/inittab, instead of /etc/init.d/xdm. This seems to solve the
> >> issue. SLiM 1.3.1 seems a bit buggy, however, on Gentoo (although
> >> didn't try on other distributions). Version 1.3.0 was more stable.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Liviu
> >>
> >
> > I am using slim 1.3.0....
> > I will try the inittab-patch, but it is only a workaround.
> > By the way: Is there a way to use different backgrounds for
> > slim and the desktop. I am using Icewm and that background
> > was overwritten by slim...
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help!
> >
> > KLind regards,
> > mcc
> >
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