-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Craig McLean wrote: > Ian Malone wrote: >>> On 19/04/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] >>>> You might want to go to runlevel 3 to change X drivers, which you >>>> wouldn't want to do with X running. >>>> >>> Actually, I'd quite like to be able to do that with X running, although >>> I suspect there's not much demand. > > Actually I suspect that many people would like to be able to do this, > but I also suspect that switching a running X instance to a new hardware > driver on the fly is as close to impossible (given the current design of > X) as makes no odds. > There is, perhaps, slightly more mileage in the idea of maintaining > window manager state across X restarts. That is, keeping the desktop the > same while X restarts underneath it. Again this is (AFAIK) unimplemented > rather than unfeasible. > > Craig. Wow, I come across like a pompous ass in that last paragraph. Sorry about that. Craig. - -- Craig McLean http://fukka.co.uk craig@xxxxxxxxxxx Where the fun never starts Powered by FreeBSD, and GIN! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFERmrxMDDagS2VwJ4RAhfyAKC33ZHYSqViikp8qFU07zNyXwVrZgCg7dcG O8eDhz1pi20FLjvCOU0Q9VI= =AkHO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
