Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com>]

> I know this happpens in Java using AWT or Swing - in the basic GUI Hello
> World program you can make a window appear.  Pressing the close button
> closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did
> not catch the window closing event and quit the application.  Code has to be
> written so that the programmer can close connections and open files, write
> data to disk, etc, before the application closes.
> 

another possibility is a GUI written as a frontend to a daemon/console utility
that tries to run something but never kills it.