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

[Erik Hahn]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 02:52:40PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Benjamin Leggett <algosystem@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:29:31 +0200
> > Erik Hahn <erik_hahn@×××.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:14:08PM +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> >  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.
> >>
> >> Is this actually a bug or intended behaviour? If it's a bug, is there
> >> a version that works properly?
> >
> > It's supposed to do this. GDM, and I think KDM, both respawn after being
> > killed, but IMHO this isn't a good thing. If you kill something, you
> > don't want it coming back to life by itself. If there's a problem
> > somewhere in your X server and the disply manager constantly dies and
> > tries to restart, that can get annoying. It's not in slim because it
> > shouldn't really be default behaviour. Might not be bad to provide an
> > conf file option for this behavior, though.
>
> You can try Qingy as an alternative for using an xdm:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Fix_The_Login_Security_Hole

Which unfortunately involves having to set up the framebuffer, in
addition starting an xdm preloads X (starting X takes only a few
seconds, but still) . Does quingy restart X on
ctrl-alt-del, anyway?

	-Erik 

-- 
hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR