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

[John E. Kreznar]

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"Michael Proctor-Smith" <mproctor13 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

That was apparently it -- see below.  Good diagnosis!  (And yes, it's
two separate screens (one display in X terminology), not xinerama.)

"Emerson, Tom (*IC)" <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> writes:

> > -----Original Message----- Of John E. Kreznar
> > X has been up for 60 days on this machine and I don't want to=20
> > take it down unnecessarily.  Ideas?

> Fortunately, restarting "X" isn't as drastic as restarting the entire
> system, so unless you have an overriding desire for your uptime report
> to reflect X itself, I wouldn't worry about a restart.

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.

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 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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