On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Sunday 26 November 2006 19:42, Eben King wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Paul M Foster wrote:
>>> I've never used bittorrent before, but I installed bittorrent-gui
>>> (running Debian *nst*ble).
>>
>> I always download files using btdownloadcurses, because downloads sometimes
>> take days, and I don't want the download to be interrupted if I crash X.
>
> How often do you crash X, and what are you running?
If mplayer gets a bad movie, or doesn't like my video card or something, it
might play a few ms of the movie and then hang on a black screen. Doesn't
respond to ctrl-alt-Fn, q, esc, or any other keystroke. Only solution I've
found is to log in remotely and do a "/etc/init.d/gdm restart".
Hasn't crashed in weeks, since I learned to play all "dubious" movies
elsewhere. But I'm open to the possibility that it _might_, which is why I
run some stuff outside of X.
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