Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!mephisto!ncsuvx!news From: ivan%nepjt@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: RS-6000 (is there an elegant way to kill "X"?) Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 90 21:26:14 GMT References: <957@nlsun1.oracle.nl> <3511@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: ivan%nepjt@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado) Distribution: comp Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh Lines: 36 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... > Ron I sort of agree with Ron. When xclock and/or any other X window is active at the time you do a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, you end up getting a "broken pipe" message. I think a "quit X" option was left out from the same menu one uses to open a new window. Then again, that's me thinking.... oh no!! Thank you all for your replies. -Ivan -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Guillermo Ivan Maldonado | Internet: ivan%nepjt@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu | | Department of Nuclear Engineering | BITNET : maldonado@ncsune | | North Carolina State University |---------------------------------------- | NCSU Box # 7909 | ... que viva Quito ! | | Raleigh. NC 27606-7909 | ... que viva el ECUADOR !! | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------