the 'failsafe' session

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

or simply to troubleshoot your session by starting it program by program
and watching the output on the xterm

søn, 23.01.2005 kl. 20.49 skrev Gain Paolo Mureddu:
> Gene C. wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:10, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>So, this came up as a sidepoint in another bug.
> >>
> >>Say, you're a user, your mouse isn't working. You try and
> >>log into a failsafe session to fix it.
> >>
> >>You're now screwed because:
> >>
> >>a) if you start an app, it may not have focus
> >>b) there's no keysequence to change focus, unless you're an X guru
> >>
> >>Is this a situation we really care about? What do we expect
> >>people to use the failsafe session for, in practice
> >>
> Only situation when I run a failsafe session is when I want to run a way 
> too heavy application for the amount of RAM on the system (Doom3 for 
> instance), so I leave completely out the overhead GNOME or KDE or even 
> XFCE could have in the system... Other applications besides games can 
> benefit from the extra memory, like visualization software or 
> simulations. Other instance when you may be forced to use such graphical 
> shell is if you for some obscure reason your session would not work, and 
> you still can use graphical tools to trouble shoot why isn't your 
> regular session working... Just a thought... though you can always rely 
> on the old trusty VT TTYs.