Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:43:33 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen <rmg1970swe@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exiting Xorg locks up 9.2-STABLE system Message-ID: <543EA435.10505@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20141015162547.GJ3963@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20141015162547.GJ3963@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-10-15 18:25, William Bulley wrote: > According to Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> on Wed, 10/15/14 at > 12:18: >> >> The last line of your ~/.xinitrc file should be: >> >> exec /usr/local/bin/mwm >> >> This makes sure that the process "continues" as mwm, and when mwm >> exits, then X also exists. > > Thanks. The last line of my ~/.xinitrc file is: > > /usr/local/bin/mwm 2>&1 /dev/null > > and since I start Xorg thusly: > > /usr/local/bin/xinit -- /usr/local/bin/Xorg > > I had thought when I exit mwm(1) using the "f.quit_mwm" feature, > that then Xorg would exit. Is that not the case? Or am I missing > your point above? This configuration has been working for me for > about fifteen years. :-) > > Regards, > > web... > Without the "exec" Xorg forks and the new process runs mwm. Thus, when you exit mwm, the original Xorg process remains. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUPqQ1AAoJEPJMW41Co4JgvD4P/2uOgiBm2oNs8nnj8yvqZLPx SGLxdpHp4+lUsDNkFNVqNvP8/X3TowJmcBnbZ4ocnSV3hJFzSqvtjFfwQEt73hNw yQtu2qcNE8UFX70AST0hDfZWjQ45WdcE76TOvGAMGVjG2qGO+EirIZOOkxB4OYHV BhQRWko8PKiwvsCIHUscIDdpygwGjkHyQiyXFl9AIDJjoJNIqoechC8opvOzbCkZ 6Q/K3aNTfMdyRFjiVgtM+NLhSRYB4DT28A8cLwzRzUcNvYPDtkIgmKyL06hapwdU TI8I/LSC4A619q5IEUEodMqeSvbdQ6CdZl4la5QNY2g4J2b2tUoS8EDANvqf+4tJ piGeowBzNb42GE+rCrqQebqCIL97vWyFQmnDhD+mcjzDw0vzp61JVkYaXy23vYZq FJj97Xf2r0ga5yb8xuUew8Krrg4Vxx3TZ5ChT5S2ZXx1dJbV68uXCi9uWgfwpWEn lXGoRbHhokNDNmAE3Wv3PQbb87xBvUfkWmMSBTtwaYdVx/cWncKOCXTbceZnnys9 0WWzj2LeQCTgHSS/PAYCyYHy0bm6rME8DDRxIEhCKdcYflrPCg4itAIu3e2eXF5t k/G7ZC5ieeXIxzKmU85Dd4h7fAUkbYOBVC+V8skdxbhW+ZtwS1GqCHMiEg5JiZ5w 3BJC7bSIizftHsWAreek =zG+s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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