André Batista <nan...@riseup.net> writes: > Hi Guix, > > I've found two regressions after upgrading to v. 1.4.1 of slim. > > The first one is that it is no longer possible to use a secondary monitor > with it. If it is connected at the same time as a the primary one, only > the later gets to show the slim greater. If the primary one is disabled > via kernel command line (eg. "video=LVDS-1:d"), slim does not start and > the xorg-server crashes. Shepherd keeps trying to restart it to no avail. > > Curiously enough the changelog for the current version mentions that > there has been some change to "how/when the pseudo-root window is created > and removed, in preparation for handling multiple monitors"[*]. I, for one, > have been using multiple monitors without issue until now.
maybe you can report it to upstream? > > The second regression is more subtle and annoying. After logging in with > one account, sometimes, in what appears to be related to have used any > gtk application, the user session is not properly terminated on logout > and herd looses track of xorg-server. If one tries to stop it with herd, > the session remais alive and there is only one bit on slim.log: I'm not exactly familiar with shepherd, maybe replacing fork+exec-command with make-forkexec-constructor would solve this problem?. > > 'WaitForServer: Not seen SigUSR1 from Xserver' > > and nothing useful on Xorg.log. > > Only by manually killing the xorg process, I've been able to get back > to a sane state again. > > Any thoughts? We can revert this commit or add a slim-1.4.0 package? > > For now I have reverted the upgrade to its current upstream version. > > 1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/slim-fork/files/
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