Re: FVWM: close behaviour in fvwm

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 06:25:21 +0200

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 02:34:47PM +1000, shao_at_cia.com.au wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I fork them to background immediately after start up.
>
> shao:/home/shao$ licq &
> [1] 8950
>
> But typing exit in xterm won't kill licq. I will try your
> suggestions.

Strange. Does the licq vanish if you kill the shell or the xterm
with 'kill -9'?

> Dominik Vogt [dominik.vogt_at_fvwm.org] wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 12:26:37PM +1000, shao_at_cia.com.au wrote:
> > > I have bound my F10 key to close the window using the following:
> > >
> > > Key F10 A N Close
> > >
> > > But after starting one of the icq programs, such as licq or
> > > gnomeicu, then press F10 to close the xterm, it will kill the
> > > icq programs as well.
> > >
> > > I have also noticed that, it does not happen with other
> > > programs, such as running another xterm.
> > >
> > > Is this a icq problem or fvwm2 problem? I am sure this did not
> > > happen in fvwm1 days....
> >
> > How do you start your icq programs? Directly from your xterm?
> > With nohup? In the background? Unless configured otherwise your
> > shell will send a sighup to all its children in the background
> > when it's terminated. You can configure your shell to exit
> > without doing this.

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