FYI: IMPORTANT: Changed default in xfwm4 to *not* run in daemon mode by default

Biju Chacko botsie at myrealbox.com
Sat Jan 11 05:47:27 CET 2003


On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:57:01 -0700, Collins wrote:

> A little clearer, but I still don't understand why you would want to
> run un-forked, most especially given the potential race condition.  If
> non-forked is more trouble, why is it now the default?

daemon mode is non-standard. Most other Window Managers do not have this
behavior. It's better to be consistent.

IAC, I doubt that the race condition that Olivier mentioned will be a
big issue unless xfwm4's initialisation becomes a lot longer and
complicated than it is now. 

-- b

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