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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Killing X Softly?
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Date: 3 May 91 20:23:55 GMT
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      Trouble is, when X dies in this manner, I get all kind of ugly
      messages like "XIO error", "Fatal X error", etc. which trash the
      console window.  Nothing bad really happens, but being a
      methodical guy, I hate this method.

Using xdm is the clean way to start and stop sessions without ugly
messages.  Yes, I know you said you didn't like xdm, but if you like
neatness, xdm is the way to go.

And for killing single clients, twm has a f.delete function, which is
the same "graceful" function as "close" in some other window managers.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium