Re: did someone fix lost X server?
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
Colin Rafferty <craffert(a)ms.com> writes:
> I just accidentally killed my X server at home, but when I
started
> it back up again and reconnected to work, my XEmacs was still alive,
> and its device on my home machine was cleanly deleted.
> To whom do I owe the nice bottle of champagne?
I'm a likely candidate, although there were other people who
tried to
fix the problem before (most notably Steve.)
Interestingly enough, my fix didn't work for me when I tested it
on
Solaris (XEmacs would enter a dumb mode), but I installed it anyway
because the new code simply seemed like a sensible thing to do. I'm
glad it at least helped someone.
Well, I tried it again, but this time, I'm disconnecting my X server
differently. It leave XEmacs in a weird state (100% CPU, no focus).
I use dxpc[1] to speed my connection from work to home. When my X
server at home goes down, the dxpc connection stays up, and I assume
that it can tell that it lost touch with my home X server. Maybe dxpc
is sending a DELETE message to each window.
1998-08-28 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr>
I can guarantee that this was not working for me four months ago. My
wife can remember my cries of anguish. Maybe the fates were just
aligned for me last night.
--
Colin
Footnotes:
[1] http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~zvonler/dxpc/