Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:12:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappearing keyboard Message-ID: <199804221612.JAA00593@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:51:19 PDT." <23641.893249479@time.cdrom.com>
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> > This is evil and should never have been suggested in the docs. > > Why? It's always worked just great for me and I've had it like > this for over 3 years. "Because if your X server crashes it just loops forever" At least that's the pathetic excuse that I've heard most often. Basically, if it works, don't screw with it. Starting it out of /usr/local/etc/rc.local sucks by comparison. (Oh dear, I just borked X, and xdm is confused. 'killall -9 xdm' and back it comes. Perfect IMHO.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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