Phoenix CE - Automatic restart of X windows after "crash"
Posted: Wed 31 Oct 2007, 23:23
Hi all
I know this has been brought up many times on the forum by new users. When using puppy in the cybercafe with pre 2.15ce versions (which has this feature by default) this used to cause more problems than anything else. I was surprised when I first (re) booted 3.00 that it hadnt made it into the mainstream distro release as yet.
Basically the theory goes, if x crashes (or more frequently, the inexperienced user does not restart/shutdown the computer properly) currently puppy dumps you unexpectedly at a black screen full of (to a new linux user) unintelligible writing. Surely this can be handled more gracefully? The theory of handling the user interface of this feature would be to
1. Explain what happened
2. explain what could have caused it
3. suggest possible solutions (just restart x, drop to the command line or edit xorg.conf)
There are already discussions and fixes to this problem here and here
I know this has been brought up many times on the forum by new users. When using puppy in the cybercafe with pre 2.15ce versions (which has this feature by default) this used to cause more problems than anything else. I was surprised when I first (re) booted 3.00 that it hadnt made it into the mainstream distro release as yet.
Basically the theory goes, if x crashes (or more frequently, the inexperienced user does not restart/shutdown the computer properly) currently puppy dumps you unexpectedly at a black screen full of (to a new linux user) unintelligible writing. Surely this can be handled more gracefully? The theory of handling the user interface of this feature would be to
1. Explain what happened
2. explain what could have caused it
3. suggest possible solutions (just restart x, drop to the command line or edit xorg.conf)
There are already discussions and fixes to this problem here and here