Shutting down Cygwin/XFree?

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Sun Sep 10 16:50:00 GMT 2000


Alt-F4 kills the X-server. I don't know whether CTRL_ALT_BACKSPACE which
kills it on linux kills it on Windows though.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:45 AM
Subject: Shutting down Cygwin/XFree?


> Okay, I never did know how to shutdown twm on a unix platform, and having
> all twm messages the same color as the background doesn't help either, so,
I
> was wondering, is there a key combination to shutdown twm and the
X/Server,
> or a command to run?
>
> If not, I'm going to put a recommendation in my How-To that says to press,
> on WinNT platforms, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and open the task manager, as this at
> least seems to crash X and return control to Win2000.  Any
recommendations?
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
>
>



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