From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) Subject: Re: Cant shutdown after X! Date: 14 May 1993 04:31:58 GMT
In article <C6x8KA.E65@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
PP> I used to have trouble with this when I would exit X with
PP> CTRL-ALT-BS. This key sequence seems to be frowned on these
PP> days by the XFree86 crowd.
PP> I find that be closing EACH window in X, then using twm/olwm (as the
PP> case may be) to finally exit all is well. Just for good measure I
PP> log off my user account, THEN log into root to 'shutdown'.
Instead of that just get an X session manager like Babaya. It makes
sure clients are shut down properly, giving them the chance to clean
up before exiting the server.
--M. Saggaf