Re: Some xterm's misbehave if not displayed
Re: Some xterm's misbehave if not displayed
- Subject: Re: Some xterm's misbehave if not displayed
- From: Tom Lane <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:29:22 -0400
- Comments: In-reply-to Michael Jinks <email@hidden> message dated "Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:49:01 -0500"
Michael Jinks <email@hidden> writes:
> The gist is, if I have an xterm that displays a shell running over an ssh
> connection, and I switch over to a different desktop or let my display go
> to screen saver mode, that xterm might be gone when I come back.
> ...
> Sometimes, it hasn't disappeared completely; instead, it's relocated to a
> different part of the screen, underneath another xterm.
I have seen some cases where XQuartz manages to relocate a window
completely off-screen; see thread starting here:
https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2016-May/003958.html
Is it possible that that's what's happening to you, rather than the xterm
getting killed completely?
For me, that happened with sleep/wake cycles or screen resizes (such as
attaching or removing an external monitor), but I would not be surprised
if a workspace swap or screensaver start/stop caused much the same thing.
> I run all my shells under screen sessions at the remote end, and those
> screen sessions are almost always still listed as live at the server, so it
> can take some trial and error to find out which displays I lost.
That sure sounds like the process is still there somewhere --- have you
tried to correlate against "ps" output to determine that?
FWIW, I've had some luck with getting such windows back in view by doing
another sleep/wake cycle. Also notice that it seemed to be affected by
how the window's position had been determined to start with.
regards, tom lane
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