Yes, X restart is problematic for me - I will try to explain:fredx181 wrote:I cannot understand btw, what can be the problem when restarting X, but apparently for you there's some issue with that.
I try to keep my system small and "lean" - so I often use software by loading pets during a session - rather than having those pets permanently loaded into a savefile (I have no savefile).
Imagine the situation where I have a number of windows open (browser , word processor etc) and I decide the screen is too bright so I load Mikes pet to control gamma and brightness - if I am forced to restart X to get the pet working, then all of those windows will close and I will be back to a blank desktop and I will have to start my session all over again.
(Restart WM does not cause window loss)