or simply to troubleshoot your session by starting it program by program and watching the output on the xterm søn, 23.01.2005 kl. 20.49 skrev Gain Paolo Mureddu: > 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. -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
