Marco <jjletho67-arodef(a)yahoo.it> wrote:
>>>I see something similar on my work machine with ATI
(unsure of the
>>>actual card specs). I've worked around this by switching to the TTY
>>>which I did startx from and sending it a ^C. This has worked for me
>>>flawlessly so far.
>>
>> Hi, thank you for your suggestion but in my case, when the problem
>> occours, keyboard and mouse are unresponsive
>
>Right. Same here. I should have mentioned that the ^C sent to startx is
>the "logout" action here :) .
Sorry Ben, now it's clear, thank you :-) and I will do some tests and
I'll let you know the result. However i think that by this way you
have never correctly closed X environment. Do you suffer any
collateral effects ?
The only things running that care about X when I do this are:
- urxvt256cd
- xmobar
- xmonad
None of them hold important files open (at least for writing), so it's
cleaner than a reboot would be in this case. The serverauth is left
laying around, but reusing that is hitting the PID jackpot AFAIK.
--Ben