On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 00:10 -0500, 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? > For it to be useful for desktop users, it would probably have to start a regular desktop but just ignore your configuration (especially your session file). I guess it might be good for bugs like the classic "vertical panel crashes on login" or losing the panel from your session. The effort to implement a useful failsafe mode might be better spent making the session manager detect hosed states (missing panel, respawns, crashes) and recover cleanly/automatically, though. Havoc -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
