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From: lee@sed170.HAC.COM (John Lee )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Can X die with no fuss?
Message-ID: <305@sed170.HAC.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 18:08:09 GMT
References: <13004@ultima.cs.uts.oz>
Reply-To: lee@sed170.UUCP (John Lee (ird))
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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In article <13004@ultima.cs.uts.oz> ckeane@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Chris Keane) writes:
<Our site runs a net of Suns (mainly 3/50's) and I like to use both
<SunView and X at different times. The Problem is that while SunView
<can be killed with no problem, X doesnt seem to have a shut-down 
<option, and when the relevant processes are killed, it tends to do
<*strange* things to the workstation. Does any know of any graceful
<way of terminating X without re-booting?
<regards...
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Funny, our site is running a Sun cluster with 3/50's and we switch between
SunView and X11R2 all the time.  The clients are set up with the default of
no window system at log-in, and the user executes xinit or suntools to bring
up the window system of choice.  X seems to exit just fine (by exiting out
of the console window) and I can switch between the two systems without any
problems.  I'm sure we have the plain-vanilla MIT distribution.  Has your
version been customized strangely in some way?

--John Lee
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