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Re: persistent xterm sessions



 On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:37 -0400, John Abreau wrote: 
> 
> Gordon Marx wrote: 
> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Boland, John 
> > <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> >   
> >> the local shells would remain running on the vnc server.  there would be 
> >> nothing running on the vnc client. 
> >>     
> > 
> > Yes, I understand what VNC is. 
> > 
> > Tom wants his _local_ xterm (or xterm-alike) sessions to persist 
> > across a reboot. 
> > 
> > Gordon 
> >   
> 
> Across a *reboot* ?!?! There's no way local processes can 
> continue to run while the underlyung machine reboots. 
> 
> It makes sense to think it may be possible for the xterm 
> sessions to persist across an exit and relaunch of X11, but 
> not across a reboot of the machine. 


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