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On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:56:29 BST Dale wrote: |
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> Well, I didn't know I could kill that thing. I been logging out and |
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> back in which annoys the stuffing out of me. I have to close three |
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> browsers, several file managers plus whatever else I am doing before I |
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> can logout. Then I have to reopen all that when I log back in. |
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Why do you have to do that yourself? I'd have thought that sddm would take |
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care of it for you. It does for me. |
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> On top of that, I have to wait for a download to stop as well. Yea, it's |
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> annoying, putting it mildly. lol I thought if I killed it, it would |
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> take the whole GUI thingy with it . Since it is still chewing away, |
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> makes me think about the Pacman days, I'll kill that thing in a few |
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> minutes, after closing important stuff first just in case. |
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Whenever an update changes a lot of GUI stuff I drop to a VT and tell it "/etc/ |
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init.d/xdm restart && logout". That ought to be equivalent to killing sddm but |
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kinder. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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