Xwin shutdown command line option

Tim Hubberstey thcyglist@yahoo.com
Mon Sep 27 23:11:00 GMT 2004


--- Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote:

> Hi
> 
> is there a way to shutdown the Xserver from command line
> 
> rather than using ps and checking for pid of XWin and using kill -9
> 
> if u can provide that option from command line it would be gr8
> 
> when XWin is started i have to go to the tray icon and shutit down,

You can go to www.sysinternals.com and get 'pskill' in the 'pstools'
package. This allows you to kill a process by either PID or name so
'pskill WXin' should do what you want

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