Re: [RP] Weird :restart behaviour

[Joshua Neuheisel]

From: "twb" <address@hidden>
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> 
> >  Mostly, when I restart ratpoison, all windows disappear and no input
> >  gives any effect.
> > 
> >  If I restart ratpoison again, from another terminal, it restarts as
> >  normal.
> 
> I have noticed this occasionally (as in ~twice/month), but unable to
> pin it down.  I seem to get it when one window closes itself (e.g. a
> gimp image window on C-q).  I find that if you can manually focus
> another window (thru some clever trick that i forget), then RP comes
> good again, without (i think) restarting.  I say i think because i run
> RP within a `$@; exec $0 address@hidden script.

I recently posted a patch for this very behavior:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4452512
See if that helps.

Joshua