stopping the cygwin X Server
Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 7 18:44:00 GMT 2007
John Windberg wrote:
> There's a nifty startxwin.bat file for starting the x server, but I
> was wondering how to stop it. So I went searching and found:
>
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-stopping.html
>
> When you are done using Cygwin/X, press Alt-F4 to shutdown the X
> Server; this is the default key combination to shutdown the X Server.
>
> As far as I can tell, this is quite wrong. Alt-F4 will close any open
> window, but not the server, but if you are rootless, and there are no
> X apps open, alt-f4 simply closes whichever windows app you have open.
> the xwin.exe process continues to run.
>
> You cannot switch to the xwin process to bring it forward to then
> close it. There is no way to send an alt-f4 to it.
>
> Should there be a stopxwin.bat?
Why not stop it with "Exit" on the context menu of the "X" icon in the
status bar?
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