exiting Xorg locks up 9.2-STABLE system
Rolf Nielsen
rmg1970swe at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 16:43:37 UTC 2014
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On 2014-10-15 18:25, William Bulley wrote:
> According to Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> on Wed, 10/15/14 at
> 12:18:
>>
>> The last line of your ~/.xinitrc file should be:
>>
>> exec /usr/local/bin/mwm
>>
>> This makes sure that the process "continues" as mwm, and when mwm
>> exits, then X also exists.
>
> Thanks. The last line of my ~/.xinitrc file is:
>
> /usr/local/bin/mwm 2>&1 /dev/null
>
> and since I start Xorg thusly:
>
> /usr/local/bin/xinit -- /usr/local/bin/Xorg
>
> I had thought when I exit mwm(1) using the "f.quit_mwm" feature,
> that then Xorg would exit. Is that not the case? Or am I missing
> your point above? This configuration has been working for me for
> about fifteen years. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> web...
>
Without the "exec" Xorg forks and the new process runs mwm. Thus, when
you exit mwm, the original Xorg process remains.
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