Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Linonut ] on Friday 06 October 2006 00:41 \__
>
> > After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Culley belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> >
> >> begin risky.vbs
> >> <l56dnXY_4KETc7nYnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>>
> >>> Man, last night XFce blew up in my face!
> >>>
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>> Turns out there was no xfwm4 (window manager) running! WTF?
> >>>
> >>> I look around in .config/xfce4, but could not find anything to fix.
> >>
> >> Why didn't you just run the xfce (or any) wm from a terminal window. A
> >> wm is just an X client albeit a rather special one.
> >
> > I did that, but no go. But I had the wrong args anyway:
> >
> > xfwm4 --sm-client-id 11c0a86d12000109923752900000003540000 --display
> > :0.0
> >
> > All is well, though. Actually a little better as it seems a wee bit
> > faster.
> >
> > Next time I'll do better forensics!
>
> That's why they call it "beta" and advice that you only install it on your
> test machine (or test CMS or whatever). *smile*
You gotta love the double-standard folks. When the alpha and beta
builds of Vista had bugs Roy was frothing at the mouth about how
terrible this was. But when bugs are found in beta builds of some
distro then his tune suddently becomes "That's why they call it a beta."
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