Re: FVWM: fvwm-2.0.43 under Digital Unix 4.0: does not die properly when X server dies....

From: Thomas Leitner <tom_at_finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:21:26 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi Jeff,

On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Jeff Magill wrote:

> > Now when I just terminate the session,
> >by stopping the dxsession manager (which causes the X server to die),
> >I can see 'fvwm2' and 'FvwmButtons' still running and eating CPU time
> >when I log-in from a remote terminal.
>
> I guess you're cutting the X server out from underneath fvwm2.

Yes. Apparently.

> I think usually people exit their X server the other way around. That is,
> the X server is usually dependent upon some application still
> running--usually the window manager.
>
> For example, I use xinit to start my X server. xinit fires of a shell
> script, .xinitrc, that fires up fvwm2 and some other applications. When
> .xinitrc exits, then the X server shuts down. My .xinitrc script waits
> until fvwm2 exits and then it exits. So when I exit fvwm2 explicitly
> (using the Quit function), the .xinitrc script notices that the window
> manager has quit and then it exits. Then the X server shuts down.

Well. I do it like this:

   a.) The X Server is started
   b.) dtlogin is started and I log-in selecting dxsession
   c.) dxsession starts up and I've configured it to use
       /usr/lib/X11/fvwm2/fvwm2 rather than /usr/bin/X11/mwm.
   d.) dxsession executes the .X11Startup file to startup my
       initial apps.

When I want to log-out, I use the dxsession's logout command which
apparently causes the x-server to die without fvwm2 noticeing.

Please note that this works without problems when I select the
standard Motif Window manager. It also worked without problems
using fvwm-1.24r

What can I do about it? I mean: What happens if the X server dies
for other reasons in your configuration? Then you run into the same
problems and fvwm2 will eat up CPU time as well. I think that fvwm
should just die when the X server died.

Thanks for your reply -- Tom

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