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From: meuer@cs.umn.edu (Mark V. Meuer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: launching gl programs from the console wsh
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.165854.13095@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:58:54 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In <9660001@acf3.NYU.EDU> mcqueen@acf3.NYU.EDU (David McQueen) writes:


>For the past two years I have been running graphics programs on our 4D80GT
>(currently Irix 3.3.1) employing the following piece of folklore:

> "never launch a graphics program from the wsh console window"

>(Lest there be any confusion, I mean the window labeled "console" when the
>window manager is running.)

>I refer to this as folklore because I no longer remember the source of this
>advice and cannot find any statement like it in any of TFM. I seem to remember
>reading or being told that launching gl programs from the console could
>render the workstation unusable without a subsequent reboot.

>Lately we have found ourselves having to reboot the workstation frequently
>after users have (I believe) violated the above advice, and I would like to
>know whether that advice is fact or merely folklore. Does any one out there
>have any knowledge/experience/opinion about launching gl programs from the
>console window?


This is news to me.  I do almost all of my work (on Personal Irises or
a 240GTX) from the console window and have never had any problems
starting GL or other programs from it.


>David M. McQueen,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University
>--
>===============================================================================
>Disclaimer:  The above is just my opinion.  God Alone Knows.

>David M. McQueen,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University

-mark

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