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From: rse@en.muc.de (Ralf S. Engelschall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Shutting down XFree86-2.0
Date: 5 Feb 1994 11:42:02 +0100
Organization: Engelschall (EN) Privat, Dachau/Munich, Germany
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In <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu>, twallace@mason1.gmu.edu wrote:
> How do I shut down XFree86-2.0 gracefully? I keep being thrown back to
> my console screen, but the machine does not respond to any commands.
I use xdm and to gracefully shutdown XFree86-2.0 I run a script which
does a 'kill -TERM $xdmpid', i.e. it kills the xdm process. This works
fine and I never had a dead keyboard.
Killing the X server process didn't work correctly for me. Sometimes the console
was dead after such try.
If you start your X via 'startx' try to kill the last command in your .xinit file.
Then the X server process shuts down automatically.
--
Ralf S. Engelschall
rse@en.muc.de