On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:12 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:56 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > > > > It would really help Fedora reliability if the desktop could survive X > > > crashes. It would also allow the possibility of disconnecting an X session > > > and reconnecting it later (I know vnc and nx allow this sort of thing). > > > > Along the same line but perhaps more interesting than 'reconnectable' X > > would be 'reroutable' X, where you could redirect output from a local > > display to a projector (Star Trek: "On ViewScreen!"). This can be done > > with proxies or double-rendering, but it would be interesting to try it > > at the toolkit level. > > Indeed, shiny new features of dubious usefulness that will probably > never be fully implemented are definitely more interesting than fixing a > long-standing problem that affects zillions of real people. (1) They're the same problem. (2) "Zillions of real people" have random X server crashes where the rest of the system stays up and their applications keep running? Huh. I manage dozens of machines with a wide range of different X configurations -- some of them really unusual -- and I don't experience that. And I work on a campus with hundreds of Linux systems and it doesn't happen there either. I must be really lucky. Frankly, in my context, reroutable would be far more useful than reconnectable. But see (1). > </sarcasm> > -Chris -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
