On Fri, Jan 06, 2012, Aaron Sloman wrote about "Re: [ctwm] [ANNOUNCE] CTWM 3.8.1 released": > I think my solution is simpler. In .xinitrc I invoke ctwm as > > ctwm -W & > > then end with > > xterm -fn 8x13 -rv +sb -T EXIT -n EXIT -geom 30x1-0-0 > > So on Desktop 1 at bottom right I have a one line xterm window, labelled > 'EXIT'.
I also used this trick once - and even made some use of that special window by using the "-C" option to capture console output (this used to work on Solaris - I don't believe it works on Linux). But the waste involved annoyed me, and killing it was ugly, especially when X clients from multiple hosts are displaying to the same X server - so I wanted a process with no window which I could kill via a simple command using the X protocol, not assuming that the kill command comes from the same host as the host running the server. Anyway, today when hardly anyone uses X remotely any more, and memory comes in gigabytes, none of these things matter any more :-) -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Jan 7 2012, [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Life's a bitch, but god forbid the bitch http://nadav.harel.org.il |divorce me -- Nas
