[xmonad] mod-shift-q is Harmful

[Michael Witten]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:47, Toby Cubitt <tsc25 at cantab.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:44:40AM -0000, Michael Witten wrote:
>> I just lost a lot of computation when a long-running program of
>> mine was unceremoniously destroyed by xmonad.
>
> XMonad aside, I always run long-running computations inside GNU screen,
> to avoid any risk of accidentally killing them by logging out, or killing
> the terminal, or other such pitfalls (the probability of which
> mysteriously seems to increase exponentially the longer and more
> important the computation is!)
>
> If your computations are command-line programs (most are), you might find
> it useful.

Indeed!

My computation was indeed being performed by a command-line program,
and as soon as I had committed my lamentable mistake, GNU screen was
the very first thing that crossed my mind. Fortunately, I *was* using
GNU screen for something even more important: IRC chatting :-)