Re: GDM Letting X Die

["Martin K. Petersen" <mkp mkp net>]

>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Clegg <samc@superduper.net> writes:

>> IIrc, Red Hat ships a patched version of GDM that always applies
>> The Big Hammer<tm> instead of resetting the X server.

Sam> To to specific, RedHat runs the display manager with '-nodaemon'
Sam> from /etc/inittab and respawns it every time it closes. 

Uhm.  No.  This has nothing to do with it.  The GDM daemon isn't
respawned every time, only the X server process.

Nuking the daemon upon logout would have bad consequences.  Think
remote X terminals or systems with more than one local X server
running...

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