Distirbuitions

[David A. Bandel]

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:35:40 -0500 (EST)
begin  Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> spewed forth:

> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> > And I _hate_ session managers -- that's why I dumped XFCE for
> > Blackbox. Every XFCE upgrade was a nightmare because session
> > manglement was default ON regardless of my previous setting for it.  I
> > have a couple of apps(xconsole and xdaliclock) that run in the XDM
> > root window and transfer to the users window on login.  With session
> > manglement, there's one more xdaliclock running each login.  After a
> > user has about 200 xdaliclocks down in the corner, the system starts
> > to get real sluggish.
> 
> Something had to be quite broken on your XFCE setup if that was
> occuring. That never occurs on my systems.

And you have xdaliclock running on the root XDM window that isn't
terminated when a user logs in?

What happens is this app transfers to the user's window, but then is saved
by the session manager which also restarts it on the next login (now
there's two).  Next login xdaliclock also transfers, but session manager
starts two more (now there's three) -- and so on.

Granted, most folks don't do this, they terminate whatever is on the XDM
root window when the user logs in.  I don't.  xconsole doesn't have this
problem because it automagically terminates (or just won't start) extra
copies of itself.  Not so with most apps (xdaliclock included).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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