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kdebase-workspace package

  1. Bug #432521
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 432521

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Achim Bohnet (allee) wrote :

Hi Jonathan,
that a common prejudice: kdm runs fine without X and even without a gfx card, e.g. on a mulituser server, kdm only announces the login service via XDMCP ;)

Back to topic: Current behaviour is broken: in the good-old-days, before alt-ctrl-del was disbled, kdm restarted the Xserver when it was killed (or crashed). In case of a broken Xserver kdm tried 3 times to start the Xsever, then gave up [today AFAIK a VESA Xserver will now be started instead?].

As further 'prove' of broken behaviour: /etc/init.d/kdm reload starts an Xserver then shows the login screen. Bugfree behaviour would be to restart X without a kick into the kdms a** via the reload command ;)

Achim