Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!sragwa!sran124!sran123!sran251!m-hirano From: m-hirano@sra.co.jp Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: RS-6000 (is there an elegant way to kill "X"?) Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 90 07:36:24 GMT References: <957@nlsun1.oracle.nl> <3511@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: news@sran123.sra.co.jp (USENET News) Distribution: comp Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan. Lines: 41 In-reply-to: ron@woan's message of 14 Sep 90 18:30:03 GMT In article <3511@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) writes: >>:In article <957@nlsun1.oracle.nl>, hbergh@oracle.nl (Herbert van den >>:Bergh) writes: >>:In article >>:ivan%nepjt@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado) writes: >>:>Under the absence of a "screen saver" utility, I find myself >>:>doing a "ps -a" and a "kill PID" to kill "X" from the console >>:>all the time. >>:Herbert> It has been mentioned here before: >>:Herbert> Typing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace on the graphics screen keyboard will >>:Herbert> stop the X server. >>: >>:Then again, a lot of us disable this "feature" when invoking X to make >>:using xlock more secure... ctrl-alt-bspace doesn't really seem any >>:more elegant than a kill... I think this is the first time posting to this newsgroup from Japan :-) . Even if My english is funny, I hope you can understand what I want to say :-) I always think that "Ctrl-Alt-Backspace" is NOT a elegant way to kill X server. So, I ported "xinit" included in X11R4 MIT distribution and replaced IBM's shell script xinit to this. Then I wrote a ".xserverrc" in my home directory like this X -n :0 -T -f 70 -c 60 -a 2 -fn rom17 and at the end of .xinitrc, I do "exec xterm". So I exit from xterm invoked by .xinitrc, my X server is going to kill just like another machine's X server. Thank you for reading. from Japan with LOVE... Motonori "Heita" Hirano Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan E-mail: m-hirano@sra.co.jp