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From: raveling@VAXA.ISI.EDU (Paul Raveling)
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Subject: Re:  Killing applications
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 12:43:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 12:43:24 1987
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Regarding...

	I would also like a Root-menu item to Exit X-windows (currently, I type
	exit to the initial xterm window).

After groping around a bit, I arrived at one workable way to do this.
on HP 9000's.  It seems reasonable it should also work on a Sun, but
I make no claims and have little faith in different Un*x systems being
REALLY compatible.


This technique works when xinit starts X with an initial terminal window.
In .uwmrc, each menu has an "Exit from X" entry, looking like this:

	menu = "Display Operations" (Yellow:Blue:White:Red) {
	... other menu entries ...
	Exit from X:            !"exitx"
	}


The exitx shell script contains:

	#
	#	exitx:	  Shell file to exit from X
	#
	ps -e | awk '/console/&&/xterm/{print "kill " $1}' | csh


The main difficulty I had was in trying to specify the shell script's
one-liner directly as the menu operand.  I never found a successful
combination of quotes and escapes to get the correct command delivered
to a shell.


--  Paul Raveling
    Raveling@vaxa.isi.edu