Re: [9fans] A note on using E

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

> #!/bin/sh
> if 9p stat plumb > /dev/null 2>&1
> then
>        exit
> else
>        plumber
> fi
>
> to ensure that the plumber is running.  This works nicely for me, as I
> can exit and restart acme, and the plumber continues running.  When I
> log out of this linux system, however, it appears that the plumber is not
> killed, and the next time I log in and start acme, the script sees that
> the plumber is still running and doesn't start it.  Unfortunately, that
> running plumber doesn't seem to be work right because when I click on a
> URL in acme it doesn't get opened in my web browser.  I have to kill and
> restart the plumber to get this to work.

The problem is that the old plumber does not have
access to your new X desktop, so it cannot start
a new firefox nor can it tell one running on the new
desktop to do anything.

The solution is to restart plumber always, perhaps in
your .xinitrc.

Russ