Shutting down Cygwin/XFree?

Suhaib M. Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Sun Sep 10 16:56:00 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.
> 

That si Windows default shortcut and should work.

Suhaib

> 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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