[SGVLUG] Loss of keyboard function on screen 1 of two

[Claude Felizardo]

On 6/12/07, John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
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> "Michael Proctor-Smith" <mproctor13 at gmail.com> writes:
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> > Seems like you have two seperate displays not xinerama or anything
> > and the window manager on screen 1 died.  Things like keyboard focus
> > are controlled by window managers.
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> That was apparently it -- see below.  Good diagnosis!  (And yes, it's
> two separate screens (one display in X terminology), not xinerama.)


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> It wasn't so much the uptime report as 60 days of accumulated work in
> progress (windows scattered over 18 desktops and piled probably 6 deep
> in places).  ps ax | wc -l gives 203 processes.
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> After RTFMing about "restart fvwm" I finally gained enough confidence
> that it preserves windows and their processes intact, and I did that.
> Sure enough, they all survived.  The worst damage was displacement of
> the windows on screen 1, presumably by the dimension of the fvwm
> border.
>
> What I really need is decent session management software, so that all
> that work can survive restart of X or the whole system.  xsm doesn't
> do it because so few applications conform to the X Session Management
> Protocol.  My small experience with KDE session management suggests
> it's not much better.
>
> Ideas?
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>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550
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Any particular reason why you prefer separate X window sessions
instead of xinerama?  I much prefer being able to drag windows from
one screen to another and especially being able to stretch a window as
wide as possible when looking at logs and reports.  I worked on one
project where we replaced a mid 80's workstation consisting of 5 "ANSI
color graphics" terminals with a 4 headed Sun box and they couldn't
get xinerama to work initially.  It was a real pain having to shut a
program down just to move it to another screen.  The only advantage i
can think of might be to make use of the 3D drivers but I'd give up
eye candy for more flexibility.

But if you do find a solution to session management, let me know, I
know people who could really use it.

claude