Re: [Lxde-list] [razor-qt] Re: Proposals about lxsession redesign - Requests for comments

[Jerome L. <ad...@gm...>]

razor-session is buggy and lacking. With systemd-only sessions around
the corner, the need for an actual session manager is lessened (which
is a great thing, honestly). Improving lxsession and making it
optional (eg. integrating with systemd when available) is the best
path available to us.
J. Leclanche


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Alexis López Zubieta
<azu...@es...> wrote:
> El 10/11/13 15:58, Andrej N. Gritsenko escribió:
>
>>      Hello!
>>
>> Stephan Sokolow has written on Sunday, 10 November, at  6:42:
>>>
>>> On 13-11-10 05:24 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       In fact, auto-restart might be needed only if some component
>>>> crashes.
>>>> And also in fact, in many cases this does not work at all, because when
>>>> that happens, the possibility that conditions for the crash still
>>>> present
>>>> is high so it crashes again and again. I'm not sure if auto-restart have
>>>> to be there at all.
>>
>> [...skipped...]
>>>
>>> - Fiddling with PDF viewer windows has sometimes caused Openbox to crash
>>> persistently but somewhat unpredictably. Thanks to auto-restart, all my
>>> windows flicker and then I can get back to work.
>>
>>      Well, I don't know who restarts Openbox. I always believed if window
>> manager crashes then the whole session will crash as well. But you know,
>> since window manager is a core for all applications, it cannot be started
>> the same way as some application so it is irrelevant for the subject of
>> discission (i.e. autorestart for /etc/xdg/autostart/ items) in any case.
>>
>>> - Rapidly opening and closing LibreOffice windows as part of splitting a
>>> .DOC into several dozen per-chapter HTML files can cause LXPanel to
>>> freeze or crash.
>>>    In the former case (lxpanel freezes), I hit Win+Space to pull up
>>>    gmrun (habit since I normally demand a run dialog with tab completion
>>>    and command history) and type "killall -SEGV lxpanel" because it's
>>>    easier than remembering or looking up the exact command to respawn it
>>>    after SIGTERM causes lxsession to omit the auto-restart.
>>>    In both cases (freeze or crash), I then usually have to hit Win+Space
>>>    again and type "sh -c 'audtool shutdown; sleep 2; audacious &'"
>>>    because LXPanel is the only panel which doesn't take responsibility
>>>    for recovering tray icons and Audacious is one of a handful of apps
>>>    (Audacious, neap, oDesk Team) which don't take responsibility for
>>>    re-creating their tray icons and, since no Audacious devs use LXDE,
>>>    their response is "Unless you want to provide a patch, it's a bug in
>>>    LXPanel, not Audacious, since it works in Xfce, GNOME, KDE, etc."
>>
>>      Yes, I'm aware that lxpanel is somewhat buggy and sometimes crashes.
>> If I wasn't so busy with libmenu-cache/libfm/pcmanfm I would take part in
>> it. It seems as the most buggy core component of LXDE. It still has 129
>> bugreports in the bugtracker and I'm not sure if there are no other bugs
>> still unreported. :(
>>
>>      May be I should go for it after the LibFM/PCManFM 1.2.0 will get a
>> final release? Yes, I know, Qt will be ready sometime later, but for now
>> it is still raw and unusable for me so I still stick with pcmanfm and
>> lxpanel GTK+ versions (yes, I restart lxpanel manually when it crashes
>> and I don't use "start application" function of lxpanel, I use Xfce
>> starter instead, it is similar to lxpanel's one, but reliable and also
>> can remember history of commands).
>>
>>      Well, anyway, I still believe any autorestart is a workaround, which
>> is dirty and very bad thing to do, we have to fix core components instead
>> of workarounding bugs. :)
>>
>>      Well, how Xfce, GNOME, KDE, etc. handle similar issues? Do they also
>> autorestart core DE components?
>>
>>> - Various PCManFM crashes I've encountered over the years.
>>
>>      About PCManFM I treat any crash as issue that should be fixed ASAP,
>> and that issue should never ever happen and I highly suggest never do
>> autorestart on it. Well, I know, it crashed before 1.0 as in a hell, but
>> now if it ever crashes, feel free to bomb me, it is simply an emergency
>> situation.
>>
>>      Cheers!
>>      Andriy.
>
>
> Hello:
>
> I was cheeking the PCman proposal and it seems good to me but why are you
> not taking nothing from the razor-qr session? Will this be the same session
> for bot lxqt and lxde ?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Alexis López Zubieta
> Nova Light Development Team
> University of Informatics Sciences (Cuba)
>
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