[Xquartz-dev] 2.4.0-beta2

[Nathan]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann<simone at 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