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- From: david@wal6000b.udc.upenn.edu (R. David Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: AIX Xserver question
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 15:08:54 GMT
- References: <BuBq91.KLs@math.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Sep10.072149.13133@aragorn.unibe.ch>
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- In article <1992Sep10.072149.13133@aragorn.unibe.ch>, haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener) writes:
- > In article <BuBq91.KLs@math.uwaterloo.ca>, mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
- > |> When I type "xinit" without a .xinitrc file, it uses the stock one in
- > |> /usr/lpp/somethingerother. However, once I have told all of the clients
- > |> to quit, including mwm, the server still hangs around, and I have to rlogin
- > |> to the machine and SIGTERM the X server if I want to use the console again.
- > |>
- > |> Is there a fix for this?
- >
- > Kill the server with <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> on hft or setup xdm on hft.
-
- We've found that if you use
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- open xinit
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- to start up x in a new virtual terminal then when you quit all the clients
- including mwm the server does quit and then the open exits, as well. I have
- no idea why this makes a difference. This is under 3.2.2, btw.
-