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Re: neat way to crash X

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From Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au>
Subject Re: neat way to crash X
References <slrnna92u9.3qu.peter@box8.pjb.com.au> <osJpy.334489$bU4.101447@fx37.am4>
Message-ID <slrnnajip3.3hl.peter@box8.pjb.com.au> (permalink)
Date 2016-01-28 08:02 +0000
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On 2016-01-26, Chris Liddell <news@shadesoft.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 08:31:05 +0000, Peter Billam wrote:
>> Greetings.  Wanting to go full-screen on my debian stable
>>  ~> gs -r1920x1080
>> Pow! ... Apart from avoiding -r on X, what should be done next ?
>
> Upgrade? The current release is 9.18, and there have been some changes
> to the x11 device(s) which I suspect may have an effect here. The
> problem certainly doesn't occur for me (using 9.16 on this machine).

Yup, 9.18 fixes it :-)

I wasn't sure whether gs or Xorg or should assume responsibility;
probably this was discussed at the time...

Thanks,  Regards,  Peter

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Peter Billam    www.pjb.com.au    www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html

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neat way to crash X Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2016-01-24 08:31 +0000
  Re: neat way to crash X Chris Liddell <news@shadesoft.net> - 2016-01-26 12:16 +0000
    Re: neat way to crash X Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2016-01-28 08:02 +0000
      Re: neat way to crash X Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 19:17 -0700

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