Bug 31380
Summary: | Why restart X on logging out from Gnome or KDE? | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele> |
Component: | gdm | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-03-11 01:11:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Alexei Podtelezhnikov
2001-03-10 23:28:01 UTC
There's nothing to be gained by keeping X in memory, and no monitor that I know suffers adverse consequences from swapping video modes (since all PCs do this every time they're restarted, and many PCs are power-cycled several times a day for years with no damage to the monitor). The restart lets new logins use a "clean slate," which may reduce memory usage, probably increases stability a bit, and keeps users from playing dirty tricks on each other. Of all your arguments I only agree with "clean state". As for dirty tricks, what could be worse than restarting X on a system with multiple remote X terminals? Plus, log out does take a few seconds to comlete even on a modern system with Athlon 750 MHz. I suppose 90% of this time is restarting X. RedHat has two options - graphical and text login. I think they must have a meaning besides esthetic one. Text mode should be used to achive "clean state" and prevent dirty tricks. Graphical mode should be used when X needs uninterrupted execution as on systems with multiple X users. |