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From: smarks@eng.sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: olwm *exiting* problems
Message-ID: <9101292154.AA15362@trantor.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 21:54:23 GMT
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Nagesh_Pabbisetty.Henr801C@xerox.com writes:

 1. When I select the "exit" item in olwm's menu, it kills all the
    clients on the desktop and the X server!  Is there any way that I can
    have "exit" menu item to just kill olwm without affecting other
    clients?

Yes.  The following line
adds a menu item that does what you want:

	"Exit Window Manager"		    WMEXIT

This causes olwm to exit without killing all the applications on the
desktop.  Add this line to your .openwin-menu customization file.  If you
don't have a .openwin-menu file, you can copy the system default menu file
from somewhere, probably $OPENWINHOME/lib/openwin-menu.

(Why does olwm kill all the clients in the first place?  Well, think of
"exit" as "logout".  Most users login and logout more often than they
switch window managers.  If you need to switch window managers, that's
what the WMEXIT menu command is for.)

 2. I have set OpenWindows.FocusLenience to true.  When I do a ps, find the
    pid for olwm and kill it, it takes the window focus along with it!!  I
    cant go into any xterm window and type "twm" to start twm...  I could
    start olwm with the "f" flag, but is there a way to have olwm behave in
    a more user-friendly manner when it exits?

FocusLenience or "olwm -f" shouldn't have anything to do with this.  What
signal are you using to kill olwm?  If you use an uncatchable signal, like
kill -9 (KILL), olwm cannot clean up after itself.  As you've noticed,
the focus gets left in an unusable state.  If you kill olwm with one of
the signals it catches (HUP, INT, TERM), it will leave things in a
reasonable state.

s'marks

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