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From: wastebasket@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Automatic logoff from X
Message-ID: <8905272151.AA26561@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 27 May 89 21:51:55 GMT
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>>> I would like to put an "exit" option on the window mgr menu which
>>> would not only exit the user from X, but also log them out of UNIX.

Not possible, in general - if the user runs xinit explicitly, you don't
really have any way to log them off.  And suppose the wm isn't running
on the same machine as the X server?  How do you tell?

>> [someone suggests]
>> alias X 'xstart;logout'

> Uh...I wouldn't make an alias of "X".  That's your server.

That doesn't hurt anything.  Users don't run the server from their
shells directly (at least one would hope not), and programs like xinit
that try to exec() the server don't see shell aliases.  The only
potential problem is confusing someone, and presumably someone who's
trying to run the server directly already knows enough not to get
confused.

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