Re: the 'failsafe' session

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Gene C. wrote:

On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:10, Bill Nottingham wrote:


So, this came up as a sidepoint in another bug.

Say, you're a user, your mouse isn't working. You try and
log into a failsafe session to fix it.

You're now screwed because:

a) if you start an app, it may not have focus
b) there's no keysequence to change focus, unless you're an X guru

Is this a situation we really care about? What do we expect
people to use the failsafe session for, in practice

Only situation when I run a failsafe session is when I want to run a way too heavy application for the amount of RAM on the system (Doom3 for instance), so I leave completely out the overhead GNOME or KDE or even XFCE could have in the system... Other applications besides games can benefit from the extra memory, like visualization software or simulations. Other instance when you may be forced to use such graphical shell is if you for some obscure reason your session would not work, and you still can use graphical tools to trouble shoot why isn't your regular session working... Just a thought... though you can always rely on the old trusty VT TTYs.

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