On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann<simone@lisanet.de> wrote:
oopps, this "feature" may give sou some trouble. If an app launches a splash screen which closes before the main window is opened... the XServer shuts down and now the app can't connect to the XServer. I just got a bug report about this issue from a user, who couldn't launch GIMP any longer since he had enabled auto-shutdown. Disabling auto-shutdown solved it. The same issue should occur if you log into a remote computer using 'ssh -X' and start any xclient. After you quit the xclient,and if this was the last X window, XQuartz quits too, leaving the ssh connetion in an unusable state. Yeah, this is really some sort of "auto-shutdown". No matter what you want to do, it will shut down your app and the XServer automatically. ;-) (SCNR) So I vote to drop this auto-shutdown switch to avoid users getting into trouble.
The user already has to discover that the option even exists, and then manually configure it via the command-line. If they're able to do that, surely they'll be competent enough to turn it back off if they have problems with it(!?). It's a very useful feature for some of us. If anyone were to revisit the feature, I would vote for further refining it instead of excising it. ~ Nathan