-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Jackson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:42 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Colin Walters wrote: >> > No, the right solution is to examine the cases for why people were >> > using the key before, and come up with a design which addresses them. >> >> This will not help at all, because people expect to be able to use the >> current key combo, not something new they never heard of. > > So let's list the cases that zap would actually recover from: > > 1: stuck grabs > 2: focus reverts to None and your window manager is dead > 3: X driver that's decided to stop rendering (or stop rendering > correctly) > > In case 3, you need to blow away the session and there's no getting > around it. So VT switch and killall gnome-session will do just fine. > For case 2, I seem to recall this being an unpleasant requirement of the > X protocol somewhere along the line; but I'm looking into it. > > For case 1, you might be able to recover if you could just figure out > which client was being obstreperous. So clearly the right thing is to > dump active grab state to the X log on VT switch. If there's anything > there, then you know who to blame and you can pkill just that and > recover. If there's not, then the session is doomed. > > Something like this perhaps: > > http://ajax.fedorapeople.org/patches/xserver-grab-debugging.patch > > I mean, I know it's bad form to post code to a development list, but I > hope I can be forgiven this time. > > - ajax I'll add 5. Maximum number of open files hit (I experience when using KWin compositing on intel driver). I know of no non-C-A-Bs way to get out of it without rebooting. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486695> - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknSUpIACgkQiPi+MRHG3qTmdwCgqYkpYBmN+V8KG1BjWNoZO6Qd 6hcAoK7hLzmPqRTKg0xgPZ08SwkHaZDC =m2fN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
