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Shortening the rope

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 19, 2009 9:44 UTC (Sun) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804)
In reply to: Shortening the rope by hmh
Parent article: Shortening the rope

With GDM at least, the SAK kills the child gdm process on the terminal, but not the parent daemon, which then spawns a new child that starts X. I tested this yesterday, as I needed to restart X to get back the 1.5GB of RAM mozilla had leaked into it. Keyboard-wise X should be using the same translation as the VT thanks to input-hotplug, not that there's a getty on that VT.


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