Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime!woan!ron From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: RS-6000 (is there an elegant way to kill "X"?) Message-ID: <3560@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 90 15:55:29 GMT References: Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: woan@peyote.cactus.org Distribution: comp Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks Lines: 27 In article , m-hirano@sra.co.jp writes: Motonori> So, I ported "xinit" included in X11R4 MIT distribution and Motonori> replaced IBM's shell script xinit to this. Motonori> Then I wrote a ".xserverrc" in my home directory like this Forgive my ignorance, but what does the X11R4 xinit program feature? I always thought that it was basically like the supplied shell script, in that it invokes a user's ~/.xinitrc when found... Motonori> X -n :0 -T -f 70 -c 60 -a 2 -fn rom17 Motonori> and at the end of .xinitrc, I do "exec xterm". So I exit Motonori> from xterm invoked by .xinitrc, my X server is going to kill Motonori> just like another machine's X server. The "exec window manager" may have been just a touch nicer for most people, except the "exec xterm" does allow you to swap out window managers without ending the X session. Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org or woan@austin.iinus1.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +