Spider wrote:
> 
> oh. while on the matter of X ... is there a way to restart the XFree86
> server without killing all programs that run through it? I've noticed
> that it does increase quite a lot in memory consumption after some use,
> and running a long time task or such through it leaves you in a bit
> bothered situation...

Start programs nohup, and they ought to survive bouncing X.  Not much
you can do once they're started, though, but good for future reference I
hope.

-Mark Gordon

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