stopping the cygwin X Server

[Phil Betts]

John Windberg wrote on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6:13 PM::

> 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?
> 
> -j

Just right click the X icon in the system tray and select "Exit"

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