Re: Need help in X Windows installation
"Alan Su" <alsu@cs.ucsd.edu> writes:
> Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ):
> |>Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> |>
> |>> The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last
> |>> command should not end in &, but it's most useful if that's the window
> |>> manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd
> |>> have to kill the clock somehow to logout.
> |>
> |>Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X
> |>clients when they exit that causes them to shut down.
> |>
>
> I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window managers,
> and I switch them ``mid-flight'' quite a bit. (Since I have an xterm
> as the final exec'd command, killing my window manager doesn't end my
> x session.) If what you're saying is true, every time I switch window
> managers, all my windows would die, effectively ending the session.
> Needless to say, this doesn't happen.
It depends entirely of the window manager. WindowMaker, for example,
has two exit options: "exit..." and "exit session...". This way it is
optional whether all X clients should be killed or not. It is correct
that if you kill a window manager manually (kill <pid>), it should not
kill other X clients (except perhaps it children).
- Sten Anderson
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